King Cormac of Cashel as Bishop, Warrior and Scribe. St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin 1906

Sarah Purser's stained glass window depicts King Cormac of Cashel as Bishop, Warrior and Scribe and lives in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Imagine the act of creating this window, of piecing together these colored shapes like a puzzle made of light. I wonder what Purser was thinking as she arranged these figures of faith and power. The jewel-toned colors and the way the figures are arranged and flattened reminds me of medieval tapestries and illuminated manuscripts. See the way Cormac is presented? The artist presents him simultaneously in different roles and personas. It's a visual trick that painting allows—showing multiple sides of a person at once. It reminds me of the cubists, who were trying to show all sides of an object in one image. I see the lineage of ideas and forms shifting across time. It makes me wonder, how will future artists interpret our present?