A Question Regarding Nondenominational Religious Windows
I may be getting a contract soon to do a panel for a hospital chapel. It should not be specific to any particular religion. My question is: What sort of subject should I use? Has anyone out there done any projects like this?
Thanks, KFGlover Ars Vitrea |
Nature is good: clouds, birds, trees. If you want to avoid any
representational imagery (some religions may forbid it), you can use organic and geometric forms. |
sun, clouds, new day, branches, vines with leaves. Look at Islamic
(non-representational) art, perhaps at Spanish art decorations influenced by them - Moorish. -- Mike Firth Hot Glass Bits Furnace Working Website http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/hotbit47.htm Latest notes "kfg" wrote in message ... I may be getting a contract soon to do a panel for a hospital chapel. It should not be specific to any particular religion. My question is: What sort of subject should I use? Has anyone out there done any projects like this? Thanks, KFGlover Ars Vitrea |
"kfg" wrote in message ... I may be getting a contract soon to do a panel for a hospital chapel. It should not be specific to any particular religion. My question is: What sort of subject should I use? Has anyone out there done any projects like this? Thanks, KFGlover Ars Vitrea Jews and Christians both accept the first book. Geometrics shapes seem to be the way to go these days. People seem to want to interpret them as whatever they see. Where I see random pieces and colors of glass they see "god" and his divine powers? -- JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories |
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:03:33 -0500, "Glassman" wrote: "kfg" wrote in message .. . I may be getting a contract soon to do a panel for a hospital chapel. It should not be specific to any particular religion. My question is: What sort of subject should I use? Has anyone out there done any projects like this? Thanks, KFGlover Ars Vitrea Jews and Christians both accept the first book. Geometrics shapes seem to be the way to go these days. People seem to want to interpret them as whatever they see. Where I see random pieces and colors of glass they see "god" and his divine powers? g - That's so very true..... I go to a Spiritualist Church - and they wanted a bit of colour introduced to a room in which we do healing. The room has old-fashioned 'sash' windows - with a series of small panes - about 12" x 18" - so I designed a series of simple geometric panels to fit inside the windows. One of the panels is shown here http://www.inspired-glass.co.uk/Cedars_window.htm The interesting part is that everybody sees something different in the (very simple) design - so far we've had 'a cross', 'a chalice', 'an angel', 'a waterfall' and so on..... - I guess what people see depends on what they're thinking at the time....? Great fun! Adrian Suffolk UK ======return email munged================= take out the papers and the trash to reply |
A lot of hospitals have Web sites with overviews of their facilities
including chapels. You could try looking at some of these (remembering of course that they're probably all copyrighted). http://www.rcrh.org/Services/Patient/images/chapel.jpg http://www.kingsch.nhs.uk/patient/window.jpg http://www.asgla.com/downunderquilt/downunderquilt.html http://www.hillsboroareahospital.org/stainglassa.jpg http://www.johnsonstudio.org/images/Wascana-s2.jpg http://www.dazzleglazz.com/images/womans-small.jpg This one's particularly interesting, combining symbols of multiple faiths: http://www.lambstudios.com/images/window2.gif - Steve Richardson St Louis MO "kfg" wrote in message ... I may be getting a contract soon to do a panel for a hospital chapel. It should not be specific to any particular religion. My question is: What sort of subject should I use? Has anyone out there done any projects like this? Thanks, KFGlover Ars Vitrea |
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