Jesus and the Samaritan woman. Eglise Saint-Sulpice de Fougères (detail) 1919

This stained glass, showing Jesus and the Samaritan woman, was made by Ludovic Alleaume for the Eglise Saint-Sulpice de Fougères. Look at how the light comes through that blue! It's like the colour itself is alive, breathing with the church around it. The materiality of this piece is so interesting, right? It’s not paint, but light itself that's mixed with the glass to make the colours. I'm drawn to the way the red of the vessel glows against the deep blue of the woman’s dress. It makes the whole scene vibrate with a kind of inner life, like the figures have their own heartbeat. There's something here of Gauguin's stained glass experiments in the fields of Brittany, maybe. Art is always a conversation, and Alleaume speaks with his contemporaries through works like this. Anyway, there's always more than one way to look at things.