9 july 2005

St. Thomas and the other four saints that loom large in the facade of St. Thomas's Cathedral are draped in fishnet, I guess to keep off the pigeons. It hangs all right where their stone robes billow, but it binds around their outstretched fingers and tangles in their spiky golden halos.

You can still see the expressions on their upturned faces through the wide black mesh, but the piety looks a bit more doubtful.