PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH - illuminated truths (Independent Study Proj ARS487

January 21, 2022

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH - illuminated truths (Independent Study Proj ARS487 - Fall 2020)

Practice What You Preach - Truths Illuminated

Work Statement: Personification of current social issues in the guise of stained glass windows, including factual negative information on current conditions due to inaction.

Project description: Series of three illuminated stained glass windows depicting some of today's social issues.

Outcomes: To educate and make public, social and economical issues affecting citizens in our society. Stained glass windows have historically told stories of the past. These stories were told primarily with imagery, though some stained glass stories also include a limited amount of text. Here I tell stories of the present to raise awareness of the injustices.

Methods and Materials: Project will consist of three stained glass 'windows' displayed as a triptych. Biblically, the number three represents divine wholeness, completeness and perfection. This idea and aesthetic contrast the subject matter represented. Windows will be surrounded by decorative wood frames and lit from within, to give the feeling of a window in a house of worship. The light will illuminate the images and text will relate to a specific social issue. Each window will be labeled with a brass plaque - Justice, Tolerance, (not sure of the third). The informative text on the glass relates to the plaque label. Tops of each arched window will have a mirror for the viewer to self reflect.

Window sizes will be approximately 13.5"w x 41"h

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