Window 1 – The Creation and Fall

WINDOW 1
The Creation and Fall

Iconography: Text—Genesis 1:1. “In the beginning, God created” written in Hebrew and in English. The window shows both creation from the biblical story and from scientific interpretation. It shows male and female as equal and declares that work is an act of creation and therefore is good. Four basic relationships in creation are shown in their purity as God intended and as affected by sin: God’s relationship to the world, The human relationship to the world, God’s relationship to humans, and The male and female relationship.

Artist’s Description: The subject of this window is the creation and fall of man. Observing this window from right to left, there are the illustrations of the days of creation. On the center of the right side superimposed on the whirlpool effect is the symbol of the Trinity in a white/gray background. There is a woman and man illustrated in an abstract way in a blue ellipse. Blue is used because we are not depicting races but all of the people of the earth. Earth is the blue planet of the solar system. The big letter Alpha is the symbol of the beginning of the creation. (The corresponding Window 10 shows the letter Omega as the symbol of the creation of the new heaven and earth.) There are also illustrations of the creation broken by sin, i.e., Adam and Eve, the flaming sword and the cherub.