A Glorious Trans-Galactic Gate

One glimpse of this gate in a Brittany boatyard back alley and I was digging my camera out of the backpack as fast as I could manage, opportunities like this are few and far between ! What on Earth happened here ? Was it intentional ? Or was some boat painter just working out excess paint from various brushes over the years in a purely haphazard manner ? I'd be willing to bet that if you stare at it long enough, you may start to see faces and and ethereal messages from other galaxies...

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