The faces in walls

When riding on the top deck of buses in London - one of the joy's especially in town is seeing all the wonderful statues and faces on buildings. I try to photograph them but I can never move fast enough.

This illustration is based on a story about two statue heads, Lawrence and Sylvia, that were created by an artist in his studio a few hundred years ago. Once they were sculpted they became close friends and soon fell in love. However their love was short lived as they were to be given to two different clients. They tried sending messages via pigeons to one another but it was too difficult and the messages never made sense. Lawrence was then destroyed in the Blitz of WWII and Sylvia's beautiful face was weathered by acid rain.