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SYMBOLIC TIMEPIECE: Meshing the Arts and religion at Notre Dame University.

comments (0) December 30th, 2008 in Reader's Gallery

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Photo: Bass Clef and Cruciforn Inlay

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The lobby of The DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts at Notre Dame University, Indiana, displays a very colorful, multi-patterned rug throughout.

While still under construction, I had the opportunity to take a tour of the complex to take pictures for a commission to commemorate its opening. The only directive was for the piece to represent the arts. Because art and religion have been co-joined for centuries, I decided to combine a clock within a bass clef placed on columns above the inlaid pattern taken from the design in the rug. The clock signals that the arts have been and will be with us for time eternal. Music’s bass clef represents all of the arts, and the cruciform, derived from the rug pattern, represents the religious aspect of this independent national Catholic university.

Design or Plan used: My own design - Fred Schock

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