'Fragment of Time'

Last year to celebrate the 400th anniversary the Dirleton Kirk commissioned two new windows and some art work. This is one of them which the artist, Donald Hogg describes as part of “Fragments of Time” which itself is part of a series “Sea Events”

"The discarded remnant of an old period window suspends above the moonlit waters of the Firth of Forth ………..giving the impression of another time, another place; …….. The design appearing on the diamond quarry fragment is based on a medieval pattern ….. The cast pieces have a feeling of geology about them and point to a much deeper sense of a time-line.” The moon motif is from the original title page of the King James Bible published the year before the church was built. “Time, myth and circumstantial “truths” combining together then, expanded just as now to give us our rooted sense of “reality.”

It consists of several overlapping pieces of glass giving a 3D effect. Unfortunately this photo does not do the window justice at all. The new glass doors at the neighbouring Abbey Church in North Berwick are also his work.