The Ripple Effect

  Allegorical artwork by Aje Pelser "Herald Angel Dragon Slayer."  Mosaic of St George slaying the dragon over the entrance to the War Memorial Chapel, Bishops, Rondebosch, Cape Town.  Herald Angel Dragon Slayer An allegorical cubist work, oil on canvas by Aje Pelser Arching over the entrance to the Memorial Chapel at Bishops, St George triumphs over the fabled dragon. The mosaic artwork always inspired me while I attended the school, as did all the iconography of the schools architecture . Designed in the shape of a cross, the chapel is the spiritual heart of Diocesan College. When a thousand young men sing Psalms 150 and the organs pipes are declaring Gods greatness, it feels like the earth is shaking and anything is possible. No dragon can stand in the face of such unified purpose and resolve. The school has survive the Anglo Boer War, the two World Wars, the struggle against apartheid and a transition of a nation, numerous threats to private school autonomy, global ...