I began drawing Gaudi's warrior sculptures inspired in part by the Angel building's angel pediment in Kinning Park that I had drawn the other day, and in part by a postcard that my brother had sent me from Barcelona a few months back which showed these strange looking faces.
As I drew I suddenly began to recognise some of these awful visogs as some of the characters I had, once upon a time, met in my evening strolls through a Glasgow Saturday soiree.
I had always thought them a little scary, the Gaudi sculptures that is, and then, through the process of drawing them, I realised why...
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