Steeple of Light
Saturday provided a break from the rainy days we had been having so after work I immediately went out to the Country Club Plaza to catch the refurbishment of these beams of light at a local church near the Plaza water fountain. The blue water was in honor of the UMKC graduates.
Narrative taken from a fellow photographer--
When Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Community Christian Church in 1940, he envisioned beacons of light forming a “Steeple of Light.” That part of his original concept, however, was not completed until 1994, thanks to the work of Dale Eldred, chair of the sculpture dept. at the Kansas City Art Institute. At the time, four powerful spotlights were installed on the roof where their beams pierced the night sky until they went dark a couple of years ago. This past weekend, though, the beams were turned on again with newly-installed lights. The return of the new “light steeple” marked the church’s return to in-person services after the darkness of the pandemic.
Steeple of Light
Saturday provided a break from the rainy days we had been having so after work I immediately went out to the Country Club Plaza to catch the refurbishment of these beams of light at a local church near the Plaza water fountain. The blue water was in honor of the UMKC graduates.
Narrative taken from a fellow photographer--
When Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Community Christian Church in 1940, he envisioned beacons of light forming a “Steeple of Light.” That part of his original concept, however, was not completed until 1994, thanks to the work of Dale Eldred, chair of the sculpture dept. at the Kansas City Art Institute. At the time, four powerful spotlights were installed on the roof where their beams pierced the night sky until they went dark a couple of years ago. This past weekend, though, the beams were turned on again with newly-installed lights. The return of the new “light steeple” marked the church’s return to in-person services after the darkness of the pandemic.