The Ethos of Liturgical Art
and the Aesthetics of Orthodox Bells
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Gothic architecture, like scholastic thought-- and we might even say, like the mechanical tuning of Western bells-- tends to restrict truth exclusively to the intellectual faculty, to logical analysis and emotional suggestion.
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This is why both of these instances of "technique" leave us with the feeling of an inability to transcend the bounds of individual existence; we are overwhelmed, and finally crushed by the vast impersonal and mathematical spaces of a Gothic cathedral, and in this sense it leaves us predetermined our individual nature, without connection and without personal room left for the unforeseen, for freedom– we have a feeling that there is no escape.