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The Mechanical age Pegasus The Original Knucklehead Under threat of extinction From the post-pandemic Green New Deal And its vicious electric knife… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The Old Gods were quickly swept out of our digital world The masters of the moment have erected temples and towers To the glory of their virtual new fortunes Sphinges of steel searching for a riddle While Oedipus gets lost in the realm of Narcissus A mythologycally incorrect assumption Even if the Oracle could foresee […]
The beauty of luxury cannot be left to a silver spoon As for the Bamba it is a matter of grace Pump up the volume, switch on the inner lights And let’s glide away on the wing of a dream Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
We live in the illusion of our reality While social media and its AI troops Paint their own decor over our eyes Can we understand the mathematics of sight Or are we forever locked in the wrong dimension ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
The post-lockdown spirit Undeterred by the inclement skies Londoners cope with their self-inflicted pain When almost normal will normal remains to be seen As the jesters and masters spread their confused messages But at the courts of the insane kings the fool always ruled Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Spilling the spleen over Westminster Bridge Life is a river said the poet All I can see is a tug boat Towing the past week away And the London eye watches From top to bottom going around Half closed by an untimely presbyopia Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Freedom of expression reduced to a post-it In the almost normal world which is just a play of words Saturday night ramblers have not much to do Protests are now prohibited on sanitary grounds I suppose a license to live will be the next phase Photo Hugh Ardoin the Night Shift Gallery
One step way from virtual reality Young beauty, influencer to be Aspiring climber of the social media ladder Wooing Instagram for a few grams of fame A kingdom where dreams are measured by the pixel We all look for happiness But we call it by its other names… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
Continued from my previous post The Young Designer Models With balaclava wooly On the road again Kings of the street As long as lasts the night Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Wanderers meet at night along the city streets During my nightly ramblings I met a group of young designers Doing what designers do at night shooting fashion on the road Exchanged a few snaps and went our own ways Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery