Daily Archives: March 1, 2021

Sagrada la familia stained glass rose window center: do you see what I see?

This famous very ornate large stained glass window in Barcelona Spain is a wonderful work of abstract contemporary art. While the ideas below are just my own, I did some quick searching to see if others have come to the same conclusion and i saw nothing.

Look carefully at the center section (which I have turned into a stained glass pattern for anyone and everyone to build linked here, in its parts or entirety).  Look particularly at the circular glass pieces.  Read my descriptions then look at the lower image.

  1. There are circular abstract objects only in the center panel of the window. Please do an image for the entire mammoth window to verify.
  2. The circles among the abstract objects most likely have meaning.
  3. The largest top side circle i colored yellow might represent the christmas star.
  4. The lowest circle (pink) is affixed to a rectangular abstraction which to me looks like a possible wooden manger, and the circle the representation of the head of the infant Jesus.
  5. There are two nearby darker pink circles and above the baby which are organized with one slightly higher than the other, typically a Joseph, and a Mary arrangement, new mother and father.
  6. Three horizontal and evenly spaced red circles to the left near the equator of the window are to me perfect symbols for the 3 wise men (though we all know that the 3 wise men showed up in the years after Jesus birth).
  7. The five casually spaced blue circles beneath (as if kneeling, above as if observing from farther back, might be the shepherds who visited on the knight of Jesus birth.
  8. The purple circles at the top of the center rose window I am ascribing to the heavenly hosts that sang hallelujah to celebrate that event.
  9. If i know my artist type creativity friends, the only orange small circle represents Gaudi himself, or any of us really, as viewers of the extra-ordinary happenings as one of the shepherds.

 

Verge of a Dream: by another birthday

A piece of tiny ribbon
Green or silver or red
Might have been a
Hopeful package
Tied onto the
Busy wind.
A water hyacinth
in violet or of pink
Not gripping in the
Siick mud
of Indochina
east.
Some orange or plum.
bears on the limb,
Can see you leaving now
For the evening party
knowing that
Tomorrow could
Mean a new love
Starting.
We’ve closed the house
for winter
But one street,
To the dells.
And in its shop was
made this summer
in iridescent glass
a storefront Church’s
Window.
But we return
By another birthday
When called
back to school again
There until
another new
Spring.
When the rock
below
the ripple
Will shimmer
And glisten
Again.

RLB 2/28/2021