Rose Colored Windows

Rose-Colored Windows celebrates the complexity of human experience and how we choose to find hope and resiliency as it intertwines with emotion, stress, healing, and more. This interactive installation of 75+ individually crafted transparent vinyl works is inspired by stained glass “Rose Windows” which were meticulously crafted in their designs to elicit feelings of awe and wonder and let in light in buildings of worship built throughout the Medieval and Gothic periods. These mosaic tessellations often broached complex subjects such as The Universal Laws of the Cosmos, the human psyche, and celestial planes of existence. And in the spirit of those original pieces, this work, entitled “Rose-Colored Windows” looks to cast the same reverence as the source inspiration, but this time towards the complexity and multifaceted endeavor of living within a human body. Facets of life, like the struggle of living with mental and physical health challenges intertwining with themes of hope, experience, and resilience. Each uniquely drawn vinyl design represents layers of life, positives and negatives, hopes and fears, struggles and triumphs, and invites the viewer to create their own combinations to add to the larger kaleidoscope. Individually, these window pieces were each deliberately designed to defy organized perfection and welcome incidental beauty: never perfectly fitting in the gaps of the next, oftentimes overlapping, sometimes creating new designs and colors and often creating muddiness and obscurity. Never meant to be a puzzle to solve, each window was created to be a physical manifestation of the awe-inspiring, non-linear journey of our mental fortitude.