Description
In the 1200’s, the main construction of Salisbury Catherdral only took 38 years. Quite a societal feat considering the most advanced tool at the time was a pulley system.
With sacred geometry at the forefront of his mind, architect Richard Poore, was meticulous in the detailing of the arches, pillars, roofs, windows, and turned every opening into a divine passage balancing form with function.
The grand detailing can be seen within this photograph, from the individual bricks to the total balance of tones and colors.
At first, one may think that this is a painting, but the humanistic feature captured of the construction of the cathedral stands as a photograph of the real thing. While the arches going down the grand hall may look perfectly symmetrical, look at the center points in which the arches meet.
They don’t line up.
The first looks like it may be centered, but the next is just to the right, then the next is back to the left a little bit. Follow the path down the full photograph and you’ll see each arch has its own meeting point; individual to those that built it. Just like the human face and body, two sides were created from the same tools and the same template, but it didn’t necessarily come out the exact same on either side.
This ‘appeared’ symmetry is fully characteristic of what it means to be human. As a society, we tend to take things of face value, to not look any deeper than how things first appear. This photograph shows that what we first see, isn’t there; that there’s a deeper detailing to everything. Just like us, the Salisbury Cathedral is an imperfect, perfect organism.
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