Abigail’s approach to the Broken Angel commission took two paths.
Firstly, I thought about the angel that originally held the now-empty space. An angel, really, is a portal that flickers for a moment between our time-bound existence and whatever is beyond; the ineffable, the eternal. Angels move between these two states, connecting them.
For me that’s a very powerful idea – that we are not limited to the everyday business of living. There can be chinks, openings; glimpses of other states of being.
Secondly, I was struck by the thought that somebody among us broke the glass wall because they wanted to get into the sacred space of the Cathedral. Imagining somebody feeling excluded, I have created an illusory door. It is left ajar waiting to be entered imaginatively.
