Posts Tagged ‘windows’
on the windowsill
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, windows on August 13, 2021| 4 Comments »
through rippled glass
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Inspiration, nature, Photography, seasons, spring, windows on April 10, 2020| 6 Comments »
For years I’ve been lucky enough to live in a Victorian house that has a window with old glass producing a rippled view if you stand in just the right place. I’ve watched the seasons change through this window. This is Spring … or at least Spring in my neighborhood … lots of branches with buds waiting to open. Today’s downpour is probably something the trees and shrubs need though I would have preferred a bit more sunshine. I’ll keep my camera handy for when the blooms burst forth.
a window
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, decoration, geometrics, geometry, Inspiration, Photography, stained glass, stained glass windows, windows on January 14, 2019| 2 Comments »
it often begins with a window
Posted in Inspiration, tagged accessories, architecture inspired, creative process, creativity, cuff bracelet, design, digital printing, fashion, GIMP, Inspiration, jewelry, Photography, windows on February 12, 2018| 1 Comment »
new cuff bracelet available at the shop at Trinity Church
The it I’m referring to is my creative process. I was (and still am) one of those children who’d get caught staring off into the distance most often through a window. When asked what I was looking at or for, I could never really say. It wasn’t so much that I was seeking as waiting. At some point, not always, but sometimes, something would crystallize and I would see what I had not before. And its those little finds that I try to highlight in my photography or expand upon in my writing. The same sensibility holds true in the design work I now do.
For years I’ve had the pleasure of walking past this window at Trinity Church, staring through clear panes, admiring how the light shines through the decorative glass and temporarily paints the floor inside. When surrounded by so many other rich architectural details as one is at Trinity Church, I began to take this lovely but comparably simple window for granted.
But one day I took respite by the window. I leaned against the staircase and simply stared outside. Then, I don’t really know why except perhaps because the light dramatically changed in some way, I began to look at the window itself, as a whole composed of an assortment of geometric parts and that’s when I saw it. Or it found me. A pattern to play with or in this case to recreate using GIMP.
The “new” pattern that evolved can so far be found on a cuff bracelet, pencil pouch and pen, all available exclusively at the shop at Trinity Church. https://www.facebook.com/TrinityBostonShop/
not quite sunrise
Posted in Inspiration, tagged beauty, ice, Inspiration, light, Photography, windows, winter on January 8, 2017| 4 Comments »
The icy patterns that form on the inside of the windows in the old house where I live. The first time this season. Now it feels like winter. 🙂
through different windows
Posted in Inspiration, On the Road, tagged friendship, Inspiration, musings, windows on August 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The friend with whom I am visiting is recovering from surgery and so we stay close to her home. If you follow my blog you know that I love to peer at and through windows. Here, when I sit at her kitchen table, I peer out a window and see stacked containers of pots for plants and a sunflower growing from her compost pail. The cat referred to in yesterday’s post will sit at the window and commune with a chipmunk. A red bird flew by and there’s a resident hawk perhaps stalking the rabbits I’ve seen in the neighboring yards. From my bedroom window I could see last night’s moon. It was full and bright, so large, and its light shed on racing clouds painting them with cotton-candy hues. I tried to take a picture but then stopped and just enjoyed the light show. Walking is part of my friend’s recuperation and so soon we intend to walk along a canal. We’ll see what pictures are produced. Have a good day. 😉
blue green and a bit of gold
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, Branches, colors, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape, windows on June 26, 2016| 2 Comments »
emmanuel church windows
Posted in Inspiration, tagged architecture, art, Back Bay, beauty, colors, faith, Inspiration, Photography, religion, stained glass, windows on April 14, 2016| 5 Comments »
virgin & child by charles connick, 1916
Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston is an Episcopal parish located on Newbury Street. Consecrated in 1861 it is a masterpiece among the many architectural treasures to be found in Boston’s Back Bay. Its history as a place of worship and advocate for social justice for over 150 years are well documented on the church’s website. On the day that I and a friend visited to view the interior, an arts program for the homeless was concluding. Based on brief interactions with some of the participants it is clearly an empowering project, and just one of many offered in service to those in need. I hope to learn more in the future but on that day my focus was the stained glass windows. From the literature shared by one of the clergy, the stained glass artists whose work can be found in the church include John Ninian Comper, Charles Connick, Frederic Crowninshield, Harry Eldredge Goodhue, Heaton Butler & Bayne, Charles Eamer Kempe, Tiffany, Samuel West and Henry Wynd Young.
incredulity of st. thomas by tiffany glass & decorating, 1890
With expansion and construction into the 1920s, there are many different styles represented in the windows of Emmanuel Church.
st. michael killing the dragon by charles eamer kempe, 1901
by harry eldredge goodhue, 1905
adoration of the magi by henry wynd young, after 1918
Windows have been lost over time.
Others have been beautifully restored including the church’s signature window, Emmanuel’s Land, comprised of 15 panels of leaded glass with 17 smaller sections of tracery above, and done in the opalescent style made famous by John La Farge, Louis C. Tiffany and Frederic Crowninshield. Emmanuel’s Land is one of Crowninshield’s largest works.
emmanuel’s land by frederic crowninshield, 1899
The window is especially notable because it does not depict a religious scene but instead a scene from John Bunyan’s book, The Pilgrims Progress.
Piety, Discretion, Prudence and Charity show Pilgrim Emmanuel’s Land. The window was designed in memory of Mrs. Howard Payson Arnold, Crowninshield’s mother.
The windows are housed in a structure that has evolved quite a bit over its history from its original construction in 1861. As the parish grew, adjacent plots of land were purchased and new adjoining structures were built including a parish house, west transept, and two chapels. The Lindsey Chapel was the last to be built between 1920-1924. A poignant tale is at the heart of its construction but I shall save that story and those images for another post.
In this post I’ve shared just a brief glimpse of the windows inside this lovely church. I hope you have the chance to see firsthand. Learn more about the church via the following link:
new growth
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, glass, Inspiration, nature, rippled glass, trees, urban landscape, windows on April 13, 2016| 1 Comment »
through the rippled glass grayly
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, black and white, glass, Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape, windows on February 3, 2016| 2 Comments »
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