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Encircled by All the Promises of God |
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Jul 06, 2010 at 10:02 AM |
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"The sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings," says Malachi. Ernst Schwidder first used this passage as inspiration for a Holden logo in 1964. His shield features three characters - a dead branch, a fruited branch, and a sun with boomerang-like rays. Those in the Village this spring became quite familiar with the image while working on the windows to be installed in the new Koinonia entry in the coming weeks. Guided by stained-glass artist Joseph Hester, a group of sixteen Villagers constructed the nine panels which now reside in the south-facing windows of the library.
In the completed image the panels represent, Ernst Schwidder's trinity is superimposed against the basin. You know the one - that saddle between Buckskin and Copper mountains has been painted, photographed and printed; sewn, sketched and sculpted; cut, carved and crafted more times than anyone could count. And that is one thing that is so beautiful about this community - the depth and breadth of the artistic lineage. Each chalet and lodge is richly layered with generations of innumerable artists' visual articulations of both the skyline and the spirit of this place.
And so it is with our contribution - those windows. In them you'll see Ernst Schwidder's shield, Jack Coffey's watercolor vision (above), and Joe Hester's eye for glass. Also layered is the ceiling in the Village Center. Richard Caemmerer's mural features a sun set back into the northwest corner of the room. His mural, like the shield, is also about the renewal of life through the passing of seasons in this place. When brainstorming what to do for the summer theme decoration, Susannah Goodman couldn't help but frame Caemmerer's sun with wing-like rays of healing.
Goodman "wanted to feel the warmth of a healing dawn, experience those boomerang rays glittering golden overhead in this space of worship." From the ceiling hang bits and pieces of cloth from the worship decorations from each of this past year's liturgical seasons. In fluttering fabric, the wing-like ripples of rays now hold and enfold all of us. The promise from Malachi has been fulfilled - the sun has risen and brought life forth from the earth in our little valley. Summer is here.
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Last Updated ( Jul 07, 2010 at 01:00 PM )
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