Last weekend on a family visit to my home town of Spennymoor we went to Auckland Palace, once the home of the Prince Bishops of Durham and is now part of the Auckland Project. It includes a newly built Faith Museum housing the history of faith and including Eidolon. This is a multimedia immersive installation from which this is a still. It shows the projection of an iris aflame but not consumed by the fire. It buds and fades accompanied by music and sung words in Latin from the book of Daniel where Shadrach Meshach and Abednego are thrown into the fiery furnace after refusing to worship a golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar. Like the iris that burns but is not consumed another figure appears with them in the furnace, Christlike to save them.
