Unnamed
apostles and unnameable gargoyles
the
elegant counterpointing
of
grotesque and angelic
the
twitter of the immovable
the
stillness of the fluid
the
swirl of moment among the seemingly timeless
the
blush of the historicized
and
brashness of the nondescript
passed
over by chronicler
but
who in anonymity and chance
offer
everyday frills
so
brick and marble can breathe
can
speak, laugh and weep
the
narratives of sculptor and faith
the
Mephistophelean traps
of
revelation and deceit
the
clarities of the oblique
and
the confusion of the smooth
the
slanting by sun
the
casting of doubt
the
irreverence of assured orbits
and
the interruption by human error
that
other cathedralizing
in
the gaze of a sansaric tourist
and
as such
whose
credentials
amateur
or professional or bit of both
are
unchecked
for
reasons uncheckable.
Inspired by 'Nostalgie04' an exhibition of photographs of life in and our the Notre Dame by Kumar de Silva
