The abstract catches the eye As the mind tries to classify the message Is what you see that is to be or not to be Your imagination playing with your old memories Upending the apple cart of your cartesian order The photography will be the evidence for prosecution or defence When at last, or too […]
The wake of the ships on the river at low ebb Make ripples of visual deception on the mirror reflection An attempt at James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake illustration The abstract poetry of life is a fairy wand That casts a spell on our troubled hearts A grace period in the slow passing of time Photo […]
Reality all sold out Our surrealist dreams will go naked Worth two lines on a postcard ‘Wish you were here’ is the message Lost in a sinking mailbox I’ll empty one more bottle And resend to the sea Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
Almost an abstract like most of our lives We live with our prosthetic self night and day Making selfies to record the non events of our life And the meaning of selfie magnifies its emptiness Like a vampire looking in a mirror Not even Narcissus… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Like an environment concept by a CG artist Abstract, artificial and anonymous, almost hostile The business end of Lima, a 10 million-soul megalopolis Set on the Pacific shores, bathing in the roaming ocean fogs Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery
Austere and abrupt like a death sentence Stone-faced walls rise in a windowless silence They keep their little secrets locked inside Letting ribbons of sky and narrow rays of light Seep through their narrow apertures Shadows paint grotesque changing shapes in the sunset An abstract evening gown that the night will steal away Photo Hugh […]