arc stories

Destiny's vanishing point: garden arcade at Hever, Kent, photo by Pippa Rathborne

one of Chesterton's "spiritual puns" photo by Martin Huebscher Photography

Ecce homo

THE LESULA LOOKS IN DESPAIR AFTER DISCOVERING HUMANS

The amateur art restorer who botched Christ's head in the fresco of her local church may be a visionary rather than a vandal. The shy, soulful face of the newly discovered lesula species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo looks exactly like the depiction of Jesus with fuzzy chin curtain, close-set eyes and sad, twisted mouth, the introverted expression of someone who has seen it all before.

human islands

"You must move on". What do they mean? Forget? After three months, even friends get impatient. Grief is now my stigma, my badge of shame. Move On means, I think, Snap Out Of It. "You should be over it by now".When they ask me how I feel, I tell them I am fine. I wonder, have they never been lost....

BOUNDARIES part four of Re-begot...

A man walked in the park and looked

conducting

Photographs of Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells

by MARTIN HUEBSCHER PHOTOGRAPHY

LOOK, TOO