Geschilderd raam in de Dorpskerk te Oostvoorne 1907

This painted window sits in the Dorpskerk in Oostvoorne. You can almost see the hand of the anonymous painter, can't you? It’s all soft light and shadow, barely registering, as if a ghost from art history made it. Imagine the artist standing there, puzzling over the glass, coaxing these images from the interplay of light and pigment. The grid is a structural framework for this hazy narrative. What stories do these angels hold? And that sunburst in the center, is it hope? Or is it something else entirely? Think about all the stained glass artists throughout the ages. How many hands it took to bring the stained glass tradition to this moment? What would they have to say to each other? Each one pushing the possibilities of the medium, leaving a trail of visual breadcrumbs for the next artist to find.