Monday, April 9, 2007

Traquair murals

The BBC news site pointed me to this mural on the walls of the Mansfield Traquair Centre in Edinburgh (formerly the Catholic Apostolic Church), where the murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair (a leading exponent of the Arts & Crafts movement in Edinburgh) have been restored as part of a renovation of the church. Since it is Easter Monday it seems as good a time as any to post this Biblical mural, showing the Expulsion from Paradise (Adam and Eve failed to pay their council tax and their landlord, God, had them evicted). Don't worry, folks, I'm not having a road to Damascus conversion here (I'd be more the Road to Bali), you don't have to be religious to enjoy this sort of art; besides on a mythological level it is quite fascinating.

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