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The Bacchanal is the debauch of colors Where participants are generously daubed At an initiation ritual on the heights of Chepstow The devils are then let loose down the Notting Hill Spreading the fear of the underworld rule among the gentry Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2017 Carnival Gallery
Dazed as they emerge from the big Chepstow color blender Daubed and sprayed in the mix of chocolate, paint and powder Whatever the color of your skin and social status was before, you are now universal A symbolic blend of the cultures, like a coming of age rite of passage Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
The ladies are parading their new colors on Chepstow Beautiful bronze statues of Carnival daubed from head to toe Following en suite multicolored Mommas fit for the MOMA The paint and chocolate battle turns into an artist’s Midas touch Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery