Catherine is a warrior angel, striding confidently as reality bends and whips around her.

The Story of Catherine: All of Shannon Castle’s glass carvings begin as life size pencil sketches, drawn specifically for the glass carving process.  One day, she thought “Maybe I should just draw something that is meant to be seen as a finished drawing, and not something for blasting?”, so she grabbed a pencil and the material she had on hand - Duralar - and began to create, without a plan.  

Duralar is widely used in the film-making industry to diffuse high-powered stage lighting, and it adds an ethereal glow to anything drawn on it. The tricky part, however, is that it is impossible to erase anything:  once you make a pencil mark on Duralar it is there to stay.

As you look at Catherine, keep this in mind: no plan, no erasing, three and half feet wide by five and a half feet tall.