Windows of Color
Friday I drove to St. Louis for another funeral. The service was held in St. Paul's Lutheran Church early in the morning, and the morning light filled the church with a colorful glow through the stained glass windows.
The windows reminded me of patchwork quilts, and I especially liked how the small symbols were intermingled with the blocks of color -- each different, each one with a special meaning that was unique to this church and community. After the service, I happened to met a member of the church who helped to design the windows, and he explained how the symbols were selected.
posted by PaMdora at 8:21 PM
4 Comments:
As an aficiando of religious art, I am ver klempt over these windows.
They are so unique and beautiful. I love that they are so different from the norm.
Thanks for sharing these windows -- I've never seen any like them --I have just finished (last month) an art quilt for a church with contemporary windows and it was an interesting challenge to find ways to connect visually to them, while still keeping it MY work. Susie
Lovely windows - kinda like those by Chagall in a small church in southern England - this site has pix of them all - http://www.tudeley.org/chagall.html
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