Bricklayer's Nightmare

This was my first landscaping project. It is a 97-foot long garden
wall made from brick with colored glass flora and fauna images fused
onto the brick surface.

The wall is three bricks high and somewhat serpentine as
needed to follow the existing terrain. It is built on a small footing made
with high-strength concrete containing two lengths of #3 rebar. The glass
used includes Moretti rod, Spectrum sheet, a bit of Thompson enamels, and
some CoffeeMate jar glass. The brick is inexpensive (25-cent) common red
brick chemically treated (proprietary) to improve the adhesion of
the fused glass, but I wouldn't recommend a project like this for an area
that freezes. The location is the base of a bank in coastal southern
California.

The brick was fired in a Aim 1709D with a Fuji ramp/soak
controller, up to 8 bricks at a time. All bricks, even ones without
glass had to be fired as the treatment does darken the brick slightly.

Please have patience... it will take several minutes for the images to load.

Pond scene.

This pond scene needs some work. I use styrofoam for "mortar" during design.

Sunflower scene.

This Sunflower scene section is waiting to be installed. The mortar will cause the pattern to become aligned.

Mr. Bunny

Okay, I didn't say I was an artist.

Some are on top.
Some glass is on the top of the brick.

Dragonfly on top of brick.

Geckos on top of brick at very end of wall.

Glass fused to common ceramic tile.

Next are four images that span the entire length of the project.
They are stitched together from dozens of photos, so some distortions
are visible. Each section is 25' long. Scroll horizontally to
see the entire length. This large group of images may choke
Microsoft browsers (go figure - works fine with Netscape!) so they are
placed on a separate page web page so as not to hang up the whole works.
Click Here to see entire wall...

Captain Kirk! I'm an engineer, not a bricklayer!