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.
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?
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?
- 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
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interesting part is that everybody sees something different in the(very simple) design - so far we've had 'a cross', 'a chalice', 'anangel', 'a waterfall' and so on..... - I guess what people see dependson 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).
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one's particularly interesting, combining symbols of multiple faiths:
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