An Architecture of Another

Stained Glass

"My souls (characters) are conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul. And I have added a little evolutionary history by making the weaker steal and repeat the words of the stronger, and by making the characters borrow ideas or "suggestions" from one another."

 
~ Johan August Strinderg(author's foreword to Miss Julie, in Six Plays of Strindberg, 1955)

 

We are a sort of stained glass.

Pieces of life and learning assembled over time and attached to bodies like wings.

We fit snugly into the space for which we were meant, resistant to wind and rain, supporting our own weight, and withstanding time.

We are simultaneously fragile and strong.

We are opacity and transparency.

An architecture of self and others.

Meant to be shared.

To fulfill the purpose for which we were created -To shine.

Isabel Augusto