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"Seven Days of Creation"
Four windows, each 8' x 20', total 640 square feet
Antique and semi-antique mouth-blown glass from European and domestic sources
French cobalt and ruby flashed glass is etched with planets, triple-flashed French streaky glass provides white-hot accents to the nimbus, agate slices represent the petrification of matter, cabochons are eyes. Rondels set in black opaque glass suggest black holes.  Overlapping animal shapes borrow colors from each animal. 

Location: Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Hammond, LA
www.i-55.com/holyghost
Artist and Fabricator: Stephen A. Wilson / Stephen Wilson Stained Glass
(www.stephenwilsonstainedglass.com)
Liturgical Consultant: Marchita B. Mauck, Ph.D.
Architect/Firm: Michael Holly, AIA/Holly & Smith Architects
www.hollyandsmith.com
Photographer: Marie Constantin/Marie Constantin Photography
www.marieconstantin.com

A detailed rendering of the Genesis account of the Seven Days of Creation for a wall of windows forming the right side of the church's nave.  In the first and second windows, the spirit of God hovers above churning oceans.  In the third and fourth windows, life erupts in a super-abundance of identifiable vegetation and in myriad creatures of the air, water, and earth, culminating in the upper right with the creation of Man and Woman. The windows face a companion set on the opposite wall that presents Resurrection as the Eighth Day of Creation, thus inviting worshipers to contemplate their participation in the continuing story of creation. 

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