Stained Glass Designs
I have ideas for windows that have no where to go and no client to make them for.
For starters, I imagine a church filled with windows that depict the life of Christ as scenes from a construction site. You know how all the scenes from the life of Christ are very specific down to the gestures of the people and placement. So, what if I took the postures and gave them to a construction crew. It would be subtle though. When you first look at them, the windows look like a construction site with all the props: scaffolding, hard hats, weird lights on strings, sparks, stacks of raw material, and dizzying heights. If you look at them for a while though, the scene would imply the Resurrection, crucifixion, accession, and so on.
I would like to design windows for people I greatly admire. I would make one and send it without prior notice. Jimmy Carter immediately comes to mind with his focus on humanitarian issues, religion, and poetry. It seems to me that each of us is made up of different spiritual backgrounds that go hand in hand with our cultural backgrounds. It is like our spirit realm fingerprint. I can make a window to honor the individual spirit that each person creates around him or her as its own thing.
I would like to create windows about how symbols were picked in history. For example, I would create a window commemorating Emperor Constantine's vision of a cross superimposed over the sun and his mother's involvement. This cross became a new focus for Christianity as a union of Sun worship and Messianic belief. Or maybe a window about the cult of the virgin in Europe before it was absorbed by the Christian story.
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