{"id":6084,"date":"2018-03-25T16:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T16:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siteandinsight.com\/?p=6084"},"modified":"2018-03-25T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T16:06:55","slug":"the-upper-room-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/the-upper-room-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upper Room in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Upper Room is as glorious in winter as it is in spring, summer and fall. The highlight in every season is the beautiful screen outlining the bare branches of a dogwood tree.<\/p>\n

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The Upper Room\u00a0stands tall in the morning light.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Drawn by the Montreal artist Mary Martha Guy, the tree branches become more starkly striking with the late afternoon sun shining through.<\/p>\n

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The screen is a symphony of blacks, whites and shafts of light.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A close-up of\u00a0four of the glass panels fabricated by the Montreal glass artists at Vitrerie VM<\/a> Montreal make the bare thorn-like\u00a0 branches appear to stab the air.<\/p>\n

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Shadows suggest figures walking behind the glass, connecting the screen\u00a0to the inverted tree branches that make up Abenaki Walking.<\/p><\/div>\n

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What I love most about the screen in this season is the interplay of light and shadow. The space between the panels becomes a line on the snow. Sun shining through the clear glass that forms the branches\u00a0twists them in a dance, shortening some and lengthening others.<\/p>\n

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Shadows reflect emptiness, the areas of the glass left clear instead of sand-blasted..<\/p><\/div>\n

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The dogwood blossoms are less distinct under these conditions, but they are there, visible to anyone who looks with open eyes.<\/p>\n

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The gradations of light and dark add a new dimension to an already gorgeous piece of art.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bare branches on the screen are wonderful. Bare branches on the yews, planted to suggest columns supporting a ceiling for the Upper Room, are not. Hungry deer flattened themselves to pancakes and slid under the fence. Now every bit of green on the yews is gone.<\/p>\n

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Deer found a way\u00a0under what we thought was an impenetrable fence.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Once the ground is workable, we’ll transplant the yews to our fenced-in vegetable garden, hoping that with time they will recover.\u00a0\u00a0I’ll search for something else to plant in their place. Or possibly I’ll replant yews — they are perfect\u00a0for what I want in the space — and create some kind of cage to\u00a0fence them in.<\/p>\n

For now, though, I’ll ignore the damage and enjoy the Upper Room for what it is, a place of peace and quiet, where memories live on.<\/p>\n

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