Within the agate’s honey or blue milk…
by Marion
Sigmar Polke, agate stone windows for the Grossmünster in Zurich, 2006-2009.
The production of the seven church windows. Sigmar Polke: “I can accept the power of nature as religious.”
Dans le miel ou le lait bleu de l’agate, les dendrites esquissent souvent des paysages: collines, vallons ou combes, toujours plantés de sapins que la distance rend minuscules et qu’on reconnaît à leur silhouette pointue et aux branches basses un peu relevées.
[Within the agate's honey or blue milk, dendrites often depict landscapes: hills, valleys or ravines, sown always with fir trees which are rendered minuscule in the distance and which one recognises by their pointed outlines and their slightly elevated lower branches.]
Roger Caillois, Pierres (Stones), 1966
Beautiful!
I have often wondered at a giant slab of golden agate in a mid-town nYC building… the stone becomes like a sun when lit. This must be amazing in person.. thanks for sharing.
This is beautiful and so different. It scores a 100% for creativity. Thank you for sharing it!
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Where do I find the agate stone to purchase so that I can make things with it?
Stunning!
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