La Sagrata Familia was absolutely breathtaking!

The outside was Goudi’s usual mess of everything possibly going on. Everything symbolic and sculptural, all the different styles and textures too close to one another and overwhelming. Inside was even more overwhelming, but completely different.

I had the most unusual feeling walking in: I couldn’t hold everything in my head at once, my eyes darted about trying to take it in, then I stared at one thing at a time trying to remember it when I looked away. The colours and the shapes and the size, none made sense.

I remember Bug describing how he felt looking at the Grand Canyon, that it was so big, so vast, that his eyes couldn’t ‘render’ it in 3D, that it looked like a painting and trying to convince his brain that it was real was nearly impossible. This felt similar to that.

When I looked at ground level, things made sense: people and colour and columns. As I begin to look up the columns change, they split like trees or fractals, the light bounces off the joints in the trees and the branches split again further up. When the second set of branches come into view, the rest of the ceiling hangs there impossible and then finally I look at the ceiling with its shapes and untouchable heights. It looks unreal, I can’t understand how it is that I am actually in the picture that I am seeing. (I also can’t understand how the whole building is supported..!). 

As Anna said: ‘This this closest I’ve come to a religious experience’.

A tear come to my eye. Absolutely incredible.