How LA artist Ben Tuna transforms burned Porsches into stained-glass sculptures using salvaged church windows
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LA-based stained-glass artist Ben Tuna repurposes salvaged church window fragments and burned-out Porsche shells to create luminous hybrid artworks. Working out of his family's Glass Visions Studio, he bridges the sacred craft of stained-glass with the wreckage of automotive ruin, transforming destroyed luxury cars into unexpected vessels of light and color.
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· 3 pulledStained-glass has traditionally illuminated the solemn halls of holy spaces. On the east side of Los Angeles, Ben Tuna sees this medium in a new light.
He works between the language of old windows and the weathered bodies of cars, bringing stained-glass into places where it usually has no business appearing.
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