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am. the prize winner is a woman and a muslim. saudi won the competition to design $29.00 stained glass windows for the church at ole abbey the oldest monastery in germany. in. the. leave it now comes the moment of truth you only know the final effect of stained glass windows when they're installed. it and will get it all to. feel old like makes a big difference in however vividly i imagine the effect the space always adds a new dimension it always holds surprises sometimes positive sometimes negative that's what's fascinating about glass is that maybe not all the

heat and the the the at at the. all the monks wanted her to emphasize the equality of the sexes in this creation story both adam and eve hold an apple in their hands the. surely leaves is traditionally thought to be the guilty party thus the reason the 2 of them are driven out of paradise in will of a stink but if you see this as guilty ana i think adam is just as guilty after 2 why did he play along. it was a little hard on the math. in 2008 the monastery's future was looking bleak then some local philanthropist scame to the rescue the windows are just the final

element in a massive renovation probably the most important project of its kind in europe. designed the 29 windows in her munich studio. this is this i start with an idea on the. site then i begin to drop so this is i know is it's always a very long process or. my make preliminary sketches for the entire composition making it as large as the window as tar and wide is the window itself on. down then i delve into the details the tile here 9 taking my ideas and images and translating them into a design duncan. is in the site. he

is an established artist in germany but growing up in herat the 3rd largest city in afghanistan she never imagined she would achieve international success. her father wanted her to have a good education her talent was already recognized when she was in high school and she won a national competition with her work. then there was. this vase was acquired by the wife of sardar there would always afghan president at the time rise and i received a prize the prize was of ah 2000 afghani. also the equivalent of about 2 months salary for a teacher. that was of course an important recognition and motivation for me. who with you would see on. her family wasn't well off but her father paid for her

to have our lessons. a lecturer in miniature painting became her teacher and the love of her life. still treasures a painting she made more than 40 years ago. i painted it for him as a present. this is i'm going to afghanistan has an oriental culture. we don't express our feelings so directly with the use poetry and gestures instead of earth or in this picture as a declaration of love. i treasure it because i associated with many things. fear. it's a wonderful reminder. but mark boal wasn't permitted to study art at college the state decided what she was

allowed to study and so she became a teacher like her sister afi for. when my sister and i were both very committed to the quality of the sex is. the victorian she was the principal of the girls' high school and was shot down in the street. on dawn was it was the mujahideen who killed her top fund and. expressed her grief in her art. she and her husband applied for scholarships to study in russia and were able to leave afghanistan when further hurt my father took us to the airport. where we said goodbye you have an option that enough i need. more now than some months later my husband fazul took a note a kind of talisman from his wallet and showed it to me if he and heroes get

hold on psych us from the new fall it was from my father. he wrote i place you both in god's hands by the. way has protected you in this world and he will be your protector in the next world decided on my best and. the 2 artists lived for many years in st petersburg where their 2 children were born. and a doctorate in art history writing a dissertation on ornamental traditions. design and this is an interpretation of calligraphy your midrash this is the geometrical form which has rather clear lines. then i developed 3 or forms that are not quite so geometrical you know with this one here and here i've written the

word for. the mark saudis decided not to return to afghanistan and the civil war in 1904 they left for germany and applied for asylum in munich saudi especially loves the woods on the banks of the east river thank you in this charade a city that's here in difficult times for instance when my husband was ill i used to take solitary walks along the river and embrace the trees i drew a kind of strength and positive energy from them. since her husband's death nature has remained the most important source of inspiration for her life and herat.

was a fleece. water flows and not soon is in stagnation would mean the end for me big me here in ma we can live in and interests so i move through life as on a river well here it was whether i paint something on canvas or paper. or whether my medium is glass. my work in layers. i also see this in the movement of water i see the depth then i see the surface can i can also see several layers in the middle violet i don't feel life is simply black and white yes i think there are many nuances between black and white caps and that's the connection that i feel so it's different been. the

artist has a meeting in the studio of course stuff done trachea. this is where her designs are translated into the medium of glass. one of the windows shows since benedict's twin sister since benedict gets a window so does glass ticker fred meyer hole fergie's the chief glazier at the workshop and lily ramish the glass painter. we thought not so red yet it's good in school it's more green or grey. was a torn here and this red shade here is very dominant is there none is too long it's not like that in the design. there is no red on the ground in the composition and that's important to me and why did i choose that it was this all the red should be higher up here there's

a reason why i did it like this and we must keep it that way. if we have read here we ruin the composition. would be green or. no. one i've struggled with a glass and then we have to change it in the end afterall that's no good so let's change it from the very start right there so i agree even if it's complicated it has to be done because we can't compromise here and say oh let's let it go there should be no compromises. but there is a problem only one small piece of the special glasses left will fred meyer who for be able to cut all the necessary pieces from this one sheet of glass. how are. the biggest problem solved.

spread my a hole for 1st counts the pieces and then the glass will be acid treated. the glass painted coats certain areas with asphalt vanish to protect them when the glass is dipped into the acid bath. leaf only the exposed sections are roughened which adds texture to the glass. it's called yes that'll do. the piece is rejected by the artist or removed and the

new ones inserted. because. as i know it's the right decision. but we have to keep working on it to bring out the new color combination. so. i. say the last is i see this new glass is the one medium that absorbs light and releases it again.

and there's no light in is constantly changing we can we can really say that in 5 minutes we won't have the same like conditions let alone during the course of a day's thought is that from early morning to late evening the light keeps changing and so the expression changes that we've already aided with the medium of glass glass that's what fascinates me that's his unique. told my abby has been completely renovated the monastery garden the tower and the abbey church the new windows are the final stage of a long process. but millerites serious has overseen the entire project before entering the order he was a professional chef today he cooks for his 11 confreres and the abbe's.