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although it wasn’t locked.
?Soon enough, he picked up on our impatience. “Oh,Chloe Marcie, have you never been here before?” he asked, echoing the gallery worker,Waterproof Leather Boots. He rushed to open the door for us, although it wasn’t locked. (It never is, as it turns out.)
We’d heard what awaited us,Timberland Shoes, but we weren’t quite prepared for what we saw. The lines of the interior are stark, even plain. But every inch of wall and ceiling is covered in wild, sweeping, kaleidoscopic — almost psychedelic — frescoes,Stella McCartney Handbags, painted in the 1950s by artists from the Skowhegan School,Stella McCartney Bag. We were overwhelmed.
The largest image is a huge face of Christ with trumpeting angels all around; it’s upside down from the audience’s perspective, which means that it was oriented to be seen by the speaker at the wide wooden podium. But I couldn’t take my eyes off a whirling image of a ball of trumpets, flames, wings, clouds,Timberland Boots, horns and — are those the Ten Commandments tablets? It started to make sense; there’s a man holding his hands up as if to worship. The whirling ball would be God, the worshipping man Moses,See by Chloe.
Storm clouds rain on waves and ships in one section, and we spied an ark. Hands surround the sun in another; that would be Creation, right? And on and on,Chloe Handbag. As Davis continued buzzing around the lawn with his mower and Lily trotted in and out and up and down the aisles to check on us, we marveled in every direction. Natural light filtered in from the large windows, and the effect was almost like that of seeing a fully tattooed body; we could back up and take it in as a whole, or get closer and become lost in the swirls of color, the symbols, the passionate energy of it all. The building seemed alive. |
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