On Ancient and Recent Journeys - Perspectives on Becoming Artistic Director at Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew for the Episcopal Response to Aids

February 13, 2012

On Ancient and Recent Journeys - Perspectives on Becoming Artistic Director at Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew for the Episcopal Response to Aids

Church of St Luke & St Matthew, Brooklyn NY

The sun-drenched fascade of of St Luke & St Matthew Church in January greeted me on my way to the confirmation meeting.

Of the many details, I was struck by the large and colorful twelve about one-petaled window. Details of which I will reveal a bit later on.

See if you can the author/artist.

I was reminded of the famous Kepler's Conjecture as asking for proof in three dimensions of the maximum number of spheres that can be packed about one central sphere.

Here we have in two-dimensional flat representation in three-dimensional space of twelve about one with special oblate spheres or petals.

Hyperbolic Flowers - Pereira 2009

Halle with the help of many who had tried before who had come before him including Issac Newton finally, came up with the ingenious proof a few years back. The answer is Twelve about One but proving it took a few Centuries.

Implications have been and are elegant and profound in our deeper understandings of aesthetics of Nature, Faiths, Sciences and the Arts.

That Journey is fascinating on its own and I welcome many to try it on for size and fun.

Here is a hint or two on my own journeys with Six about One.

Hexagonal Matrix - On Kepler's Conjecture

Pereira - 2008

Six about One

Dark Matter Quark Fields

Pereira - 2011

Twelve Spheres about One

Dark Matter Quark Fields

Pereira - 2012

These are some thoughts that struck me at the Window on my way to this meeting.

I am too often the curious and dumbstruck looking fellow standing in the middle of the street, wide-eyed, mouth agape as traffic swerves, screeches and honks about scribbling Pyrrhic notes in an imaginary notebook.

Real Notebook

HONK!!!

Back to the Church.

Interiors

Can you Guess at the Author/Artist?

What a wonderful bejeweled series of surfaces and spaces. Light captured and transformed into many-valued expressions and narrations..absorbed with sidelong glances on the way to a meeting for which I don't want to be late.

Being easily dumbstruck by beauty it was proved a difficult assignment.

At the office I was greeted by a lovely Miss of the beaming Smile.

Lady of the Beaming Smile

She ushered me into the committee room.

Wayne our Treasurer with the backdrop of that Great Light.

Behind me.

More Stained Glass Marvels

I wasgetting the feeling of something familiar.

Dear Dina. Friend and Sponsor and Angel.

Rector Michael

Truly marvelous to meet such a dedicated group of people. Selfish and good-humored.

We had worked on World Aid Day just a few before and this our chance to share life stories and hopes for the future. Dina and I found out we we share work we had done with the Momentum Aids group back in the nineties when I was in Soho.

We focused on the upcoming Aids March New York in May.

With warmth and enthusiasm I was sworn in as Artistic Director.

I was given a Tour of the Church and the restorations in play.