Thursday 13 September 2012

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.