A documentary on the Washington National Cathedral’s West Rose stained-glass window tells the story of the window’s creation and how it made the neo-Gothic building a space that embraces both tradition and modernity.
Filming the hour-long documentary, “The Creation Rose,” was a professional and personal project for Peter Swanson, whose father was an Episcopal priest and whose mother worked at Washington National Cathedral. One of his summer jobs in high school was serving as a mail carrier for the cathedral in the early 1970s.
“I just love sitting at the cathedral and just looking at the West Rose’s sparkle. Its light changes so much over the course of a day. … It’s magnificent and amazing,” Swanson, a parishioner at Christ Episcopal Church in Rochdale, Massachusetts, told Episcopal News Service. “The fact that the window is abstract is also great. It’s a kind of hypnotic experience to sit there and look at the window and study it. When you get up close to it, those details are just incredible.” To read more, click here
