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NICK SAYS: My fixation with hip-hop records began when I was very young. I loved the way they mixed samples and sound fragments and made them into something brand new. An artist might take a drumbeat from one record, a horn sample from another and put it all together. It was like a mosaic of sounds. For me, making leadlight windows is a little similar: it’s a collage. You assemble little pieces of glass together to create a whole.

Our practice, Vivrant Things, started when my partner Sam and I moved to Melbourne from Queensland a few years ago. One of the things we liked about the suburb

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