San Francisco-based fillmmaker Victor Solomon spent the past summer learning the much-overlooked art of making stained glass, and this past month, he combined his new passion for the art form with his enduring love of basketball to create—you guessed it—stained glass backboards. Says Solomon:
“It started off an offhanded joke, a play on the basketball terminology ‘glass,’ but the more I worked on it, the more I found a convergence of philosophy between the two [basketball and stained glass]. Both require exquisite precision in execution and devotion.”
Below, Solomon takes us through the process of making each backboard: