Evocative of a clear pool of water in the quiet bend of a stream, this sculpture is characteristically Japanese in its metaphorical equation of glass with water. Toshio Iezumi manipulates light, color, and transparency by stacking sheets of plate glass of different thicknesses. He then glues, or laminates, the layers of glass together, and grinds and polishes the glass with stoneworking tools. As the glass layers thin toward the edge, the material becomes transparent. As the sheets thicken in the middle, the transparency fades into the deep, natural green color of the glass.