A Season In The Making
I’ve been doing the Lego Church Project a long time. Sometimes it’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Every season building and displaying my work. To the point that it has become a cycle that goes on every year. It’s hard to imagine myself growing up that this is what I would be doing with my life. To be spending hours on end building, creating, and sharing. Along with a lot of prayer.
I talk about my work in Seasons. Not unlike a U.S. based TV show. Each year is a chance to tell a new story and at the end I start the process over. For me the season starts with the build. Where I take over a month to come up with and construct the project for the year. Each year is a new design. Often inspired by previous years or parishes I’ve seen. Either in person or in photos. The builds can be rather complex and intense. Often testing the limits of myself and durability of the LEGO being used. Each Project tends to be around 47x25x25 inches. Though some years can be less depending on what the layout calls for. I’m coming up with this all in my head with almost nothing written down before hand.
The next part in the season is the displays. I try and do two or three a year. Though at least five or six would be ideal. This allows people to have a chance to see my work in person. To ask me questions about what I’m doing and why I am doing this. In between I will sometimes go on radio programs or podcasts. Along with writing blog posts and reflections about what I feel. Most of it relating to the faith or something that I am dealing with.
As Advent and Christmas come around. I head into the last days of the Season. The Project goes over to Christ The Good Shepherd. My home parish and a place I’ve been displaying at since 2003. Once that display is finished The Project comes home and I take about two days to tear everything down. Nothing really remains of the previous year other than the memories. Thus my season is finished and it is on to the next year.
Each season is a chance for me to dive into the bricks. To pray with my hands and to put all of my troubles into my work. Takes a large amount of effort to do this. To come up with a new design while still having a deep respect for the Mass. It can be a challenge. But one that is welcomed. Since it allows me to give this life some kind of purpose. I am on the path that God has me on. That is something we should all be reaching for.
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