An artist is creating a pair of giant glass dove wings for Chichester Cathedral.
Carrie Fertig, assisted by students at Edinburgh College of Art, is building an extraordinary pair of 25ft flame-worked glass dove wings especially for the cathedral.
Comprised of 300 individually made glass feathers, the fascinating sculpture will be suspended above visitors in the cathedral’s North Transept.
The dove, which is meant to symbolise the Holy Spirit is designed to both catch and transmit light.
Outstretched the dove wings are at a scale intended for flight for the human body, with the individual feathers ranging from 33cm to 105cm in length.
Fertig began work on the wings two years ago when she was Artist-in-Residence at Chichester Cathedral and has named the sculpture Homing saying the aim is to “connect the spirit within the individual, community and cathedral to each other”.
The piece will be unveiled at the cathedral on October 10 and will be available to the public until January 17.
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