Part 6

make a solution. Hope springs eternal.
Dealing with this portrait, I am distinguishing between overall architectonics and "secrets". Architectonics are clearly visible to everyone. I contrast them with "secrets" which require time and attention, indeed a deal of time if they are to be recognised. So the purpose of the chips might be just the secrets, for a chip gives the opportunity of a secret, a face for example.
All the upright columns have chips, the Pope's column, the column of life and the humanist - Lutheran column. The grey bridge overarching has faults in the stone rather chips - every thinker has his bias, maybe.
Chips happen in the course of time through accidents of one sort or another. They correspond then to time in the theme "Truth the Daughter of Time", Thomas More's Theme, Mary Tudor's motto.
Unlike the blood red wall, chips do not prevent the function of the column they are in. They illustrate fault, I suggest. "Humanum est errare" - or as Our Lord put it with regard to the human proclamation of the Gospel: "It is necessary that scandals will come".
Chips in columns are to be expected. The contrast is the blood red wall which represents a sort of triumph of evil over good. The function of the structure is lost.