Yolanda Bergman - Everday ritual......

There’s a moment, right after you break the skin of an orange, when the whole world seems to tilt toward that bright, citrusy burst of scent. A quiet, ordinary ritual: peel, segment, eat. It’s one of those small domestic scenes that almost never gets the spotlight—and that’s exactly why it makes such a powerful subject for stained glass mosaic.

In this blog, I want to explore a single image: a still life of an orange, mid-peel, resting on a counter—reimagined in stained glass mosaic. Not just how it looks, but why this simple subject works so well in glass, and what goes into creating it.

Still life has always celebrated the everyday: fruit, bread, pitchers, crumpled cloth. An orange being peeled adds a fleeting sense of time. It’s not just a bowl of fruit arranged to be admired; it’s an action, paused midway.

In stained glass mosaic, that pause becomes permanent.

The act of peeling suggests revelation: the inside emerging from the protective skin.

By choosing an orange mid-peel, the artwork becomes less about the fruit itself and more about that intimate, everyday ritual we rarely notice.