'Sculpt' Arts Trail
'Cloud of Unknowing' by Alexandra Carr was a large perspex cube with coloured lighting, hanging in the church's nave. When we first went into the church that is all we could see, but as we moved around, after several minutes, a fog erupted from the cube, slowly wreathing the church in its vapour. The fog represents our human quest to understand our place in the cosmos and our fleeting, ephemeral comprehension of 'the unknown'. It was intriguing, anyway, and rather beautiful as it unfolded.
It was installed in the small church of St John the Evangelist in Mickley, another church dating from the early 1800s. It is constructed of cobblestones from the nearby River Ure. It has an unusual memorial window of etched glass, in memory of Lt-Col Samuel Hutchins DSO, Royal Irish Regiment, who lived locally in his later years.
"Cloud of Unknowing" or "I haven't the foggiest"? :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know....
ReplyDeleteOh, I like that! And I can imagine that experiencing it could be moving. An aid to meditation.
ReplyDeleteI love the window!
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed to see modern art in such a setting, but it just speaks to each person, doesn't it. And it tells us that the people who installed it there were struck by it's message being spiritual in nature.
ReplyDeleteThe memorial window particularly draws my eye.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a moving experience.
ReplyDeleteThe fog would send me running for the door.
Its a quaint, beautiful church and what an unusual place for an art installation.
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