Man with a Seagull on His Head

Harriet Paige

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A gull falls from the sky and strikes a council worker on the Essex beach below. He is obsessed, a crazed visionary repeatedly depicting the scene and the unknown figure within in it who filled his view at the moment of impact

Under the intense summer sun on the Essex coast a gull falls from the sky and strikes an unassuming local council worker sitting on the beach below. From that moment on he is obsessed, a crazed visionary repeatedly depicting the scene and the unknown figure within in it which filled his view at the moment of impact. The mysterious beauty of his creations draw others to him but can they lay hold of that which possess him? And what of his anonymous muse?