It was great to see over 1500 people visit our Christmas Icons installation in the Royals in the weeks leading unto Christmas 2016. 

As a small collective we’re committed to find ways of telling the Christian story in ways that make folk think, laugh, question, learn.

Christianity can sometimes be very wordy, although this has not always been the case in its 2000 year history. We believe images and icons are just as important as words.

This is why something to look at and experience is always at the heart of what we try to do as Icons-on-Sea.

Over the last years we’ve used the Christmas and Easter festivals as opportunities to do something creative. 

We want to try and do something more regular and so once a month we will try and put something new on our website with a similar ambition of offering something to look at which might make us all think, laugh, question and learn.

Here’s a window that I think is fantastic. You go and see it if your ever in London as its a window in St. Martin’s in the Fields, next door to Trafalgar Square.

I think it’s fantastic because it is not clear what we are seeing, it is open for interpretation.

We are drawn to the centre which perhaps speaks of life or death: is it an egg or a void? Are the intersecting lines a web or a prison: are they holding the oval shape from falling or is the oval shape trying to break out? The curved lines make a cross shape: is this the space between Good Friday when Jesus died and Easter Sunday when Jesus was resurrected. 

I wonder what you think?

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