A Toronto artist has created three stained glass installations which generate solar power, one of which is being hooked up to the power grid in the western province of Saskatchewan.
“Lux Gloria” was created by Sarah Hall at the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Saskatoon. It consists of solar panels embedded in brightly coloured, hand-painted glass.
Once it is connected, the cathedral will be able to use the solar power produced by the glass to offset its own power consumption from the power grid.
The other installations are at York University in Toronto and at the University of British Columbia in the west coast city of Vancouver.
“When you use art, you build a story into it that makes people notice in a way that they don’t if it’s just technology,” said the artist, Sarah Hall.
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