Kathryn Barush

Kathryn Barush is a writer, art historian, and pilgrim living in Berkeley, CA.

Early afternoon, Glastonbury: London-based artist Chiara Ambrosio and I have left the cottage where we had slept, fortified by a breakfast of cherry tomatoes roasted in a ramekin and spread on toast. We made our way through the English fog and ascended the mysterious Tor—a cone-shaped hill rising from the landscape crowned with a mysterious tower dedicated to St. Michael (who, being an Archangel, has a legendary love of high perches). I peered out from the arched doorway over the Somerset rooftops, and asked Chiara to snap a photo.
William Blake, Frontispiece, Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion (c. 1821, Copy E)Illuminated printing, Yale Center for British Art (left); Pilgrim inside the Tower of St. Michael, Glastonbury (2012). Photo: Chiara Ambrosio (used with permission)

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