Sometimes A Stone Can Speak.
In 1978 I started work on a study of the Chartres Cathedral. It continues in some ways to this day. A small book by Henry Adams and and an angel that smiles from it’s stone and glass home in France was to blame. Some say it’s story was the first breath of the Renaissance others might remark it’s followers are just a bunch of dandified Catholics. But it still stands almost a thousand years later
CHARTRES RENOVATION Printed page on paper with tape plastic 18”X24” 1988
STROKE DRAWING Printed page on paper, ink clock and tape 18”X24” 1988
SPLIT SAINTS Printed page on paper with plastic ink and tape 18”X24” 1988
CRUCIFIXION Printed page on paper string and tape 18”X24” 1990
CHARTRES PACKAGE Printed page on paper tape and string 18”X24” 1990
CHARTRES PACKAGE ll Printed page plastic tape and string 18”X12” 1990
EMPEROR Printed page on paper tape pencil 18”X24” 1990
SIDE PANEL DRAWING Printed page on paper with ink 18”X24” 1988
Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (French: Cathédral Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres,France, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220. The rose window is not bad with colors later found in every painting of Raphael and it also touts some of the best cross ribbed bays in the business of architecture.