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The sculpture is 21 feet (6.4 m) wide, 15 feet (4.57 m) high, 28 inches (71 cm) deep, and features eight life-size nudes. It was designed by artist Frederick Hart. Hart was an apprentice carver at the cathedral, but was going to quit in 1969 because he believed it held no future for him. Then he heard rumors that the Cathedral Building Committee wanted to portray the creation of the universe on the west facade. Furthermore, it was willing to consider nonrepresentational, avant-garde designs. For three years, Hart drew plans which would unite the whole west facade together. He was deeply influenced by the writings of the Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who attempted to reconile science and religion. Out of those writings, he came up with the idea of a whirling, wind-blown, billowing universe. In 1973, the Cathedral Building Committee asked four sculptors (including Hart) to submit designs for the central tympanum and a figure for the trumeau (central column supporting the typm

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