LOCATION
St. Barnabas on the DesertParadise Valley, Arizona, USA
PROJECT
Music Building: 36 Windows(Air-brushed float glass with laminations of antique & dichroic glass.)
The forms are based on a series of sketches drawn from photos of the local desert: a poetic and painterly response to my experience in Arizona. The intensity that is gathered into the ‘fire flower’ over the podium gives a dynamic power to the composition. The desert forms move out from the podium through the warm golds, flowing into blue-greens and then dissolving into deep blue: chosen to correspond with the intensity and full spectrum of light present in the music building.
The drawings from the desert are overlaid with lyrically painted rhythmic measures of musical composition. These intersections give us an ever-changing illuminated pattern of crossings and a sense of journey.
"Sarah has seemingly unlimited imagination and capacity to create works that are unique and appropriate to the individual culture and place. Her work is fresh, strong, yet personal, stirring. It has the potential to quicken the soul; it is not predictable or a cliché."
- Nancy Harvey
The drawings from the desert are overlaid with lyrically painted rhythmic measures of musical composition. These intersections give us an ever-changing illuminated pattern of crossings and a sense of journey.
"Sarah has seemingly unlimited imagination and capacity to create works that are unique and appropriate to the individual culture and place. Her work is fresh, strong, yet personal, stirring. It has the potential to quicken the soul; it is not predictable or a cliché."
- Nancy Harvey
See The Desert Crossings · Luminous Journey in the gallery.
