Over the past several years, I've really enjoyed thinking about different ways of decorating the sanctuary--beyond paraments and banners and flowers. There's a fine balance--I don't want the focal elements to be too distracting. But I do want to see if I can create something non-verbal and non-musical that can add to people's understanding of the Gospel, that can help foster a different attitude.
Yesterday was Transfiguration Sunday, a festival day where we celebrate Jesus going up a mountain with a selection of the disciples. While there, his clothes and face glow, and Moses and Elijah (dead prophets) appear.
I wanted to create some sort of piece that would speak to that. I had shimmering gold cloth and gold ribbons and lights. I had a vision for a piece suspended high, but I wasn't sure how to do it.
Then I saw my wedding veil, with its wired headpiece, and I had a plan. I got to work an hour before the Sunday service started, and created this:
It's not exactly what I had in mind, but nothing ever is. As I developed my plan through the week, I worried that it would evoke something different: a ghost or something Christmas-y, or something from a wedding.
Here's how it looks from a distance:
I like that it evokes the crown that Jesus will soon wear after his transfiguring time on the mountain top: the crown of thorns. I like that I used Christmas lights and ribbons to end the season of Epiphany.
And then after church, I took it all down: time to prepare for the much more somber time of Lent.
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