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A customized family memorial that would feature a family ring. The enlarged design would be made out of Stainless steel and slab glass and would be inserted into granite. James M Cota, the artist assisting the family with this project had completed the artwork on the replicated design and needed to locate a company that could fabricate both the one inch thick stainless steel and the one inch thick slab glass. JIT Companies was able to fulfill the niche.
James sent preliminary design concepts for the inlaid artwork. JIT Companies translated the drawn artwork into auto Cad and worked with James to engineer the installation variables and artistic features. Some of the unique specifications included:
- Cutting one inch thick slab glass pucks out of customer supplied material; programming the cuts to specifically utilize some unique imperfections within the glass
- The artist was able to specify a 3/16” joint to accommodate epoxy cement
- Both front and back would need to be polished as the inlay would be visible from both the front and back side.
- Epoxy cementing was handled by others. All parts as well as customer supplied, drop material was vacuum packaged to ensure nothing would be damaged in the return shipment to the customer.
James M. Cota is a freelance artist that designs family monuments, niches, cemetary features, private/community and chapel mausoleums, civic memorials, as well as, stained glass windows. He has been a consultant to architects on several large scale memorial projects around the US. You can see additional works at http:www.arts.state.mn.us/aor/2006/Cota.htm or contact jmcotadesign@gmail.com
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