The Healing of the Nations

Today's the day ........................ to say goodbye to the Cathedral

Last day of work at Blackburn Cathedral. I've spent most of the past three weeks in there and I have come to like it - and the people that work there - very much.

This is a final look at the huge sculpture on the east wall designed by Mark Jalland. Its message is one of peace and harmony and it was made over eighteen months using local skills and expertise. The perforations over the surface represent leaves - although they could be interpreted as shoals of fish or flocks of birds. They imply the motion of the individual and its belonging to the mass.

Fibre optics laced within the eight-metre diameter surface provide colourful and dynamic illuminations during the hours of darkness .........