St. Ignatius Chapel at Seattle University, my favorite stop of what was a whirlwind Seattle weekend tour.
and what i really couldn't capture but is one of the best things about the chapel;
"Just as in Seattle's leaden skies, the light here has to make an effort to get through and across; it has to scale each ripple and climb out of each groove. The light's labors reward our lingering. And in an inversion of the tradition that a stained glass roster of saints declares providence to the congregation, light from single shards of colored glass, concealed from direct view, alone suggest revelation. All of a sudden, an intense patch of green magically condenses on a white waxen wall and then, with the passage of clouds, it dissolves, while another apparition, this one red, quietly materializes on another wall as if by divine decree."
-PLACENOTES
Steven Holl's sketch depicting his "seven different bottles of light in a stone box."
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