_Chapel Ceiling Painting:  St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, USA_
c. January 1st, 1997 (calendar year nineteen ninety-seven)
Dr Saku Gunasegaram/Isaac Falconer

The calendar year 1996/1997 (nineteen ninety-six/nineteen ninety-seven) rector at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, USA John Horner:          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lJE359HOs4          asked the artist [Isaac Falconer/Dr Saku Gunasegaram] to paint this ceiling such that parishioners at St. Mary's would be inspired to gaze "upward," both literally and metaphorically, when they entered this little side chapel [NOT THE MAIN CHAPEL] to pray.  The tiny "crosses" scattered across the ceiling symbolize both the pain and the victory of the cross.  The numerous crosses vary in size to literally symbolize individual differences among parishioners, children and adults alike.  This is the reason that the artist painted some crosses larger than others. The "star" that led the wise men to Jesus is painted as a "cloud" rather than as the traditional Christian five-pointed "star."  The "cloud" as it appears in this photograph of the ceiling follows in the tradition of ancient Chinese paintings of stars, rather than in the tradition of Western (or Occidental) paintings of stars.  This "Cloud of Unknowing" is a specific visual reference to "Christ" as His Person is described in the writings of many Christian mystical writers, including St. John of the Cross.  Christian mystics throughout the ages have made reference to Christ (or Jesus) as the "Cloud of Unknowing."  The ceiling painting was completed before the artist Isaac Falconer/Dr Saku Gunasegaram became aware of Quaker George Fox's words:  "I saw oceans of darkness, and above them I saw oceans of light" indicated here in painted sections.  Fortunately for the artist, platonic, Quakers [Members of The Religious Society of Friends
an accepted Christian religion for centuries] and family friends+spiritual friends like     Margaret Stineman     ,
 Joanne Levy     +Alyssa Levy     +first cousin     Marla Gunasegaram
saw the Isaac Falconer/Dr Saku Gunasegaram 1997 (nineteen ninety-seven) ceiling mural before it was painted over by another artist.

©1997 (copyrighted calendar year nineteen ninety-seven) Isaac Falconer/Dr Saku Gunasegaram

COMMISSIONED BY:  The Reverend John S. Horner:          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lJE359HOs4          , Rector,
_FORMERLY_ of
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, USA
36 Ardmore Avenue, Ardmore, PA 19003, USA
telephone: +1 610-649-1486 Fax: +1 610-649-4562
stmarysardmore@verizon.net.
 
Dimensions: Approximately 36 (thirty-six) feet by 34 (thirty-four) feet by 10 (ten) inches
The ceiling curves upwards 10 (ten) inches at all four (4) corners.
A camera with a fish-eye lens was required to do justice to the way
it looked at completion on January 1, 1997 (calendar year nineteen ninety-seven). 
Unfortunately the artist had no access to a fish-eye lens camera. 
The photographs above were taken of
each section of the ceiling with an ordinary 35 mm camera.  This ceiling has
since been painted over, but restoration to its original condition of January 1, 1997 (calendar year nineteen ninety-seven) 
  has been attempted/is being attempted by curator Ross Lance Mitchell
~at least that was the most recent (2003-two-thousand-and-three) conversation.

In September 2016 (twenty-sixteen) the ceiling painting-artist Dr Saku Gunasegaram/Isaac falconer
 "accidentally" "stumbled' upon internationally-acclaimed
English author+Giant Of Modern English Literature D.H. Lawrence's words:
https://www.amazon.com/Among-Haystacks-Stories-Cambridge-Lawrence/dp/0521336740/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474392689&sr=1-2&keywords=love+among+the+haystacks+by+d.h.+lawrence
 'Burns novel fragment:'
"Overhead the sky was of fine, high blue, but in the west it grew mild as turquoise,
then glistened green near the dark rim of the hill.  Under the blue sky-the fawn..."
So just TRY "telling the artist" D.H. Lawrence that "he" never "saw this painting!" :)
"while he lived."  Ju-ust kidding!

_Chapel Ceiling Painting:  St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, USA_
c. January 1st, 1997 (calendar year nineteen ninety-seven)
Dr Saku Gunasegaram/Isaac Falconer

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