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BOB ABERNETHY<\/strong>: We have a story about the art of making a stained glass window, an art that enriched cathedrals long ago and is still very much alive today. Bob Faw has a report on a stained glass artist in Florida who talks about how a window is made \u2014 and why.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>BOB FAW<\/strong>: In his Orlando, Florida studio, Jim Piercey, along with a handful of skilled artisans, carries on a 1,500-year-old tradition: creating \u2014 indeed celebrating \u2014 with color and glass not just beautiful stained glass windows but something more.<\/p>\n

JIM PIERCEY<\/strong> (Stained Glass Artist): People have told me that my windows have helped them come closer to God, and if that\u2019s what my windows do, then I consider the windows a success.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Stained glass \u2014 that is glass which has been painted then fired, which has graced the great cathedrals and private chapels \u2014 stained glass enriches an inner life, said one historian, with its own richness. Since 1981, Jim Piercey has completed nearly 400 works of stained glass, from a chapel in a wooded retreat to a Sunday school in a community started by Walt Disney, to this spectacular rose window in St Michael\u2019s Episcopal Church in Orlando.<\/p>\n

Reverend ROGER HAMILTON<\/strong> (Rector, St. Michael\u2019s Episcopal Church): The objective, of course, in all things is to glorify God, but also to use it as a teaching vessel.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: So many biblical stories in these windows \u2014 some well known, others less so \u2014 that every week Father Hamilton brings pre-schoolers here to study.<\/p>\n

Rev. HAMILTON<\/strong>: We see, for example, also that wonderful story of Rahab lowering the spies of Israel out of Jericho and saving their lives.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: To be successful, Jim Piercey says a stained glass window must fit with the personality of its church. But according to art historian Richard Gross, stained class which truly succeeds can do far more.<\/p>\n

RICHARD GROSS<\/strong> (Stained Glass Association of America): If the stained glass is well designed and well executed, it\u2019s going to lift your mind to God and to provide a way to encounter God and to grow in spirituality and understanding of the Christian faith.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>FAW<\/strong>: The process of making stained glass is painstaking, even tedious. For Jim Piercey it begins at the drafting table, making a \u201ccartoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: So, basically, making a cartoon is drafting a full-size drawing. So if we are doing a window 20 feet by 20 feet, I have to draft it 20 feet by 20 feet.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Much, of course, depends on the glass itself. Piercey\u2019s is all hand-blown in Germany, selected not just for its color but for whether it will transmit light directly or spread it.<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: But this glass is totally transparent. This glass is translucent. This is really good to use if you want to obscure a view like a parking lot or a McDonald\u2019s across the street from the church.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: From the glass that\u2019s selected, every piece is sectioned and numbered to match a corresponding number on the drawing, or cartoon. The glass then carefully painted.<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: This glass is being stained. These are actually called glass-painter stains.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Then into a furnace, or kiln, heated precisely to 1,250 degrees, where paint fuses onto the glass.<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: Once this glass comes out of the kiln and is cooled, that\u2019s permanent. I mean, it\u2019s there for 800 years.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Later, as he\u2019s done for the last 58 years, Helmut Schardt glazes the panel using pliable lead strips to piece the sections of glass together.<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: The lead is shaped like an \u201cH,\u201d and it has channels on either side. The channels receive the glass.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Finally the panels are covered with sawdust, a mild abrasive, and are buffed or polished to a brilliant sheen.<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: Because it\u2019s mouth-blown, handmade glass, these striations make that piece of glass sparkle.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>FAW<\/strong>: Completed, Piercey\u2019s stained glass does more than dazzle. At Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Lake Mary, Florida, parishioners asked him to create a dove \u2014 not descending as in most church windows, but ascending.<\/p>\n

Pastor PAUL HOYER<\/strong> (Holy Cross Lutheran Church): The idea would be that as you look at the dove, your eyes would go up. When we think of the dove going up, we think of the spirit of man and that spirit connected with the Holy Spirit \u2014 ultimately connected for eternity with the spirit of God.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: What Piercey has done here, says Hoyer, is to encourage worship.<\/p>\n

Pastor HOYER<\/strong>: And this is where I like to pray. I like to sit right in the very center where I can see all of the glass, and the presence of God comes to me in that way. For me personally it\u2019s just a great worship experience.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: In all his stained glass there are similarities, each very labor-intensive and time-consuming. But each window is unique, and while some symbols are traditional \u2014 a lion for the Apostle Mark, an ox for Luke \u2014 those doves are another matter. Jim Piercey has done hundreds of them, and each one is different.<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: You can depict a dove like it\u2019s almost like a photograph, or you can abstract a dove to where you can barely tell that it\u2019s a dove. While they\u2019re thinking about that dove, what that dove is doing to them is taking their mind away from the economy, from political situations. It just gives them a brief moment in time where they can contemplate something greater than they are.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: All this from what began as a hobby for a 62-year-old former high school biology and chemistry teacher who was raised as a rock-ribbed Methodist and who will tell you that though he is unaffiliated with any denomination he, like his work, has evolved spiritually.<\/p>\n

(to Piercey): You said your windows allow people to have access to something greater than themselves.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: Yeah.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: That\u2019s the way you see what you do?<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: I would say a lot of my work is spiritual. I\u2019m spiritual, because I\u2019m not preaching, you know, I\u2019m not proselytizing. What I\u2019m trying to do is interpret what their faith says.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: You see the windows as being, almost fulfilling a priestly function, I gather?<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: For a lot of artists, liturgical artists, stained glass or sculptures or tapestries, it\u2019s their ministry.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Yes, it is enormously expensive, and lead, so essential here, is widely considered an environmental hazard. But those who uphold the tradition say the practice of stained glass is flourishing now and that it always will.<\/p>\n

Mr. GROSS<\/strong>: People want to surround themselves with beauty, so just as churches will continue to have all sorts of religious art, stained glass will be a major part of that.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: And if stained glass no longer holds the same exalted role that it held in the Middle Ages, both then and now it continues to teach, to inspire, to sooth, even to look beyond.<\/p>\n

Mr. PIERCEY<\/strong>: That sunlight comes through those colors with all the texture and the striations and seeds and reams of stained glass. Nothing matches it in beauty.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Especially in the loving hands of someone for whom all this is more than just pieces of glass.<\/p>\n

For RELIGION & ETHICS NEWS WEEKLY<\/strong>, this is Bob Faw in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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