Today is Ascension Day. Not that I’ve ever paid any attention to it before, but I saw it in my diary and it seemed as good a day as any to bring you my Recoleta Cemetery Jesus & angel. And what a splendid angel at that, with substantial soft-pink wings and wavy hair that makes me think of Charlie’s Angels (how I wished for a hairdo like that). The whole scene reminds me, too, of 1970s sci-fi films and TV programmes where the characters found themselves transported to Utopian lands. Am I getting carried away?

Either way, the bright reflected clouds mysteriously mirror the inky sky immortalised in the stained glass and add a touch of otherworldliness as they pierce the angel’s wings. I can’t help but see magical kingdoms, heaven, the source from which we came and to which we will return.