Sigmar Polke's stone windows

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On my list of things to someday see are Sigmar Polke's agate windows at the Grossmünster in Zurich; in a 2008 New Yorker piece, Peter Schjeldahl wrote that Polke "conceives his stone windows as symbols of the creation, conjoining base matter and celestial light." Later, there's this bit, which I love: "This got him onto the subject of rounded forms in nature. He said, 'God made the earth in small circles.'" More images here + here.

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Sigmar Polke's Agate Windows at Grossmünster

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“On my list of things to someday see are Sigmar Polke's agate windows at the Grossmünster in Zurich; in a 2008 New Yorker piece, Peter Schjeldahl wrote that Polke "conceives his stone windows as symbols of the creation, conjoining base matter and celestial light." Later, there's this bit, which I love: "This got him onto the subject of rounded forms in nature. He said, 'God made the earth in small”

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