The most memorable feature of this cathedral is a strikingly incongruous array of 71 human heads extending from the building’s cornice, all of them representing not heroes or saints or biblical figures, but instead every day 16th century people. No two are alike.
I chose to include only seven of them in this image, concentrating on the spot where two cornices joined at right angles to each other. I placed the top head in the upper left hand corner and let them flow from there down to the lower right hand corner. But one thing bothered me – the peachy tone of the church itself. The faces are gritty and intense, but the church’s exterior seemed pleasant and soft to the touch. When I converted this image to black and white, the peach colored tone vanished, and the faces no long had to compete with it. They now stare at each other with all the ferocity they can muster.