#decolorization

We tend to treat bright tropical sunlight as an actinic agent that deteriorates and damages structures. And indeed it does. Everything from medicine tablets and liquids, to beach-chairs, wine and of course us, wrinkling under the Sun, are damaged by it.

But on occasion sunlight can create poetry - and purity - as witness the remnants of this crustacean carapace bleached into a beautiful eburnean white by the relentless sun, giving the dead beast a second resurrection as it were, it exhibiting far greater alabaster beauty in death than it did in life, beautifully coloured though it was even in life.

What does a "love letter" look like more than 2,000 years ago? 

We witness here once again the extraordinary bleaching power of both the visible light and the ultraviolet light present in intense tropical sunlight, we looking at almost an albino version, albeit a hollow dead one, of a crab carapace!!. We feeling as though we were seeing a ghost version of this antediluvian beast, one left with a sense of unease.