The sky was Blue glass

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Gumby’s “canvases” are typically square-shaped or made from conjoined rectangles, with colors and depths that shift depending on one’s viewing angle. For this body of work, the gemstones sourced are lapis, ruby, amethyst, rose quartz, lemon quartz, fluorite, black tourmaline, and citrine. Each of the “Moonwalkers” (a term Gumby uses to describe his signature zigzag-shaped panels, which he developed in 2017), contains up to forty raw, uncut gemstones, which Gumby integrates onto the panel with painted glass before sealing with acrylic. As Gumby explains: “For me, putting these pieces of glass together was also a metaphor for putting myself together, especially in terms of my relationship to the cosmos and astrology. But then I’m also trying to redefine myself through colour, through abstraction, though the process of painting. Each piece of glass that I place symbolizes a moment of my life that has accumulated to form who I am as an individual sitting in front of you today.”