‘Through Adversity To The Stars’
(That is the translation of the Latin motto of the Royal New Zealand Air Force at top left of the stained glass window in the picture. Great inspirational motto, and art!)
Through Adversity To The Stars
Tag: Stained Glass
‘Onward’
‘Onward’
…there is really only one way to go…
Green Twist
‘Green Twist’
Crest & Flowers
‘Crest & Flowers’
Symbols And Stories
Another stained glass roof panel from the entrance atrium of the Auckland War Memorial Museum – a quartered shield tells a story. Quite what the symbols mean, I’m not certain; a red lion atop a castle tower, a tropical palm tree, a plant or vine, and a sailing ship on a voyage to a new land of mountains and hills. The story of a person or people spelt out in bold abstract signifiers and ours to ponder.
Stained And Ablaze
Many of the pictures I post are symbols of something else to me, the essence of the image through my own personal prism. They may mean something different to you, or nothing at all .I love the use of symbols depicted in older stained glass windows and panels(and in other art) – in this case the sun and a star – as they cut to the chase and deliver the essence of something important to the creator of the piece in abstract, simplified form. There is also at sense that ancient and universal symbols transcend time, place and culture and the rendering of them like this is immediate and compelling to anyone who views ,and has viewed,them.
Ebb Then Flood 