a voice from the rustbelt: Pentecost 2012

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Pentecost 2012

Alexander Calder is credited with being the creator of mobiles. I thought they were toys for infants that hung over their cribs. In the orient, wind chimes are pre-historic. Calder also designed toys. I had not thought him the inventor of non pictorial kinetic art, but so he is credited. Banners, and flags flowing in the wind are kinetic.

The pictures do not do justice, in situ it is more impressive.

Mobiles in modern art are failures. Felt banners often quite so. Here, Saint Stanislaus Cleveland, they work. Earlier in May, they release rose petals for the May crowning. For Advent, they suspend a giant wreath with candles. For Pentecost, seven tongues of fire represent the presence of the Holy Spirit.

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