Though architecture places a certain emphasis on a building’s frontage leaving an often unconsidered rear, can art turn the narrative around by blurring these distinctions? Dutch artist Job Smeets has transformed the rear side of a disused 19th-century Dordrecht church into a bronze and glass sculpture that piques you ‘to see more the longer you look’. The installation, located amid rows of pitched roof houses in the historic Dutch town, took five years to create, with over two years spent handcrafting it in Job’s atelier. Titled Embrace, the work features a casted bronze frame embracing three glass windows flushed with drawings that reference medieval iconography. Read more: Link in Bio @ STIRworld.com - SEE - FEATURES - Images: Courtesy of Jeroen Musch and Studio Job - @jobsmeets @therealsharkey @studiojobofficial @kunst.kerk @dudok_realestate - #stainedglassart #stainedglassartist #publicsculpture #artreelsofinstagram #bronzesculpture #handmadeglassart #religiousarchitecture #churcharchitecture #thinkNEXT #STIR #STIRworld #StaySTIRred #STIR_SEE @joharskhan