The giant window and the race against time

巨大的窗户和与时间的赛跑

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2022-03-07

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Tim Carey was a talented but little-known artist working with stained glass, when a huge opportunity fell into his lap. A mega church was being built in Kansas, and Tim was asked to build a huge window for it. It would be the biggest stained glass window in the world - the size of a basketball court. Tim said yes, but deep down he had no idea whether he could actually pull it off, so he approached a maverick stained glass artist called Narcissus Quagliata, a legend in the field. Together they took on the project, and formed a close bond in the process. There's a film about their story called Holy Frit. Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Deiniol Buxton Photo: Tim Carey and Narcissus Quagliata Credit: Kyle J. Mickelson
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  • Hello and welcome to Outlook, introducing you to amazing people and bringing you extraordinary stories from around the world.

  • I'm Mubin Azhar.

  • First, a story about Achansa, a man who took on a historic project worth millions of dollars that would be seen by generations of people.

  • The only issue, he wasn't entirely convinced he could even deliver whatever they wanted.

  • I was going to nod, you know, I was going to say, yes, I want to do this.

  • I can do this.

  • Because I was so inspired by the challenge of it.

  • And I just knew that we were given this commission that I knew it would change my life some way or another.

  • Either it would crash and burn and I'd go find another job, or it would be a success.

  • Tim Carey is an artist from California working in oils originally, before changing to painting glass.

  • Small scale stuff mostly.

  • One day, a huge opportunity landed in Tim's lap.

  • In December 2013, he got a call.

  • An architect was working on a church in Kansas.

  • Not a quaint hall with a spire and a little garden.

  • This was going to be a $90 million megachurch.

  • Huge in every way.

  • The architect asked him to work out how much it would cost to design and create a centerpiece for the church.

  • They didn't want a painting or a sculpture of the Virgin Mary.

  • They wanted the biggest stained glass window the world had ever seen.