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I use microscope glass slides, the specimens I collect, and watercolors to make multimedia paintings, but I call them my version of stained glass panels. When I was walking alone as a child in the Snoqualmie Valley and Honduras, I always hated that you could only see stained glass in churches or bars. I make my own stained glass now, combined with my love for microbiology. I collect samples from water sources in the King County area, but at this point my samples come from everywhere and anything

Valeria Haven Espinal (they/them) is a queer nonbinary mixed race mixed media artist and curator in Seattle. Val acts as Research Director of Center on Contemporary Art