Built From What They Had

The chapel on Lamb Holm is two army huts joined end to end. A caretaker was unlocking it when Polly arrived. "What is your job?" she asked him. He opened the doors in the morning, he said, and painted what the salt air took off.

Kapelo na otočku Lamb Holm sestavljata dve vojaški baraki, postavljeni druga za drugo. Ko je Polly prišla, jo je odklepal oskrbnik."Kakšno delo opravljate?"ga je vprašala. Zjutraj odpre vrata, je rekel, in prebarva tisto, kar odnese slani zrak.

Inside, the huts disappear. Italian prisoners of war came here in the nineteen forties to work on the sea barriers. They asked for somewhere to worship. They were given corrugated metal. What they made was a painted ceiling, an iron screen and an altarpiece. A painter named Domenico Chiocchetti led the work.

Znotraj baraki izgineta. Italijanski vojni ujetniki so sem prišli v štiridesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja, da bi delali na morskih pregradah. Prosili so za prostor za molitev. Dobili so valovito pločevino. Naredili so poslikan strop, železno pregrado in oltarno sliko. Delo je vodil slikar Domenico Chiocchetti.

"What do you need to complete the work?" That was the question. They asked for cement, and they got cement. Everything else came from what the camp threw away. The screen is scrap iron. The candle holders are old meat tins. The stone of the chancel is painted plasterboard.

"Kaj potrebujete, da dokončate delo?"To je bilo vprašanje. Prosili so za cement in cement so dobili. Vse drugo je prišlo iz tistega, kar je taborišče vrglo proč. Pregrada je odpadno železo. Svečniki so stare pločevinke od mesa. Kamen prezbiterija je pobarvana mavčna plošča.

A small hand tool sat on the sill. "Could you show me how to use this tool?" Polly asked. He showed her, and she missed it. "Could you explain that again?" He did. Then she looked up at a flat metal ceiling that pretends to be a curve.

Na okenski polici je ležalo majhno ročno orodje."Mi lahko pokažete, kako se uporablja to orodje?"je vprašala Polly. Pokazal ji je, a ni razumela."Mi lahko to še enkrat razložite?"Ponovil je razlago. Potem je pogledala navzgor v ravno pločevino, ki se dela obok.