Masquerade Ball

On a trip to New Orleans, I was inspired by many Mardi gras masks that I saw.  None were created out of stained glass let alone 3-D.  I could not find anything on the internet with regards to the creation of 3-D glass masks.  Well, as necessity becomes the mother of invention, I proceeded with trial and error and created a design, acquired a mannequin head, made a template, and away I went.  Each geometric piece of glass has to be cut multiple times in order to lay evenly over the underlying facial contour.  Each is then wrapped in copper foil and soldered to its neighbor with the facial curve occurring at the solder joints.  The larger and more complex masks can take up to 50-60 hours of work each.