Display model of Brighton Pavilion, next to the tea room |
It takes us about an hour to walk round the interior and absorb some of the antiquated extravagance. Maybe the opulence reflected for its owner that interior sense of joy known to us all at times. We stop for tea and cake at the end of our tour, and luckily there is a model of the building on display in the next room. An external photo of the Pavilion is not possible due to the tightly-knit surrounding structures, so I take a picture of this instead. When we get home, we agree that her sketch is in good correspondence. Later, I am struck by how April's drawing has a foreground, whereas now the area is fully developed. The adjacent version of the building seems to conflate aspects from both past (the grassy foreground) and present (April says she saw relatively modern cars driving around), and in so doing is somehow able to stand outside of time.
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