Clear glass shifts to rich black as new techniques blend with the opulent traditions of eighteenth-century chandeliers. The title references Shakespeare’s Othello, the tragedy about a Black Venetian general in the Ottoman-Venetian War. To Die Upon a Kiss is a play on Othello’s dying words, “I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee.” A meditation on death, the chandelier’s gentle gradation from light to dark illustrates what Fred Wilson calls, “the slow ebb of life.”