Estates of Emergency
The BLM Beauties set the tune Enough is Enough is the motto Referring to the 1619 Project Symbolic date of August 20th 1619 Arrival of the first African slaves in North America Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The coming of age of history in London 2020 At the tail of the demonstration on Hyde Park Corner A lone police woman chief holds the pack of vans Like a pack of hounds at a fox hunt of old Or the plantation police in the Florida Marshes History must come full circle before the […]
Dramatically and pandemically masked A beautiful Black Lives Matter protester Marching down Park Lane with the angry crowd The pandemic of fear has brought many countries to a standstill With far reaching consequences for the peoples But this is nothing compared to the slave trade genocide The colonization, the segregation and the supremacism they fostered […]
Can we still remember the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 And MLK like a Christ leading the way to his own sacrifice for justice It looks like we have walked backwards and Alabama swallowed the USA The political correctness and the cancel culture are just grotesque masks To cover a deep rooted prejudice that […]
The revolt dwells deep at the roots It sprouts from the seed It grows into a clenched fist There is no more time for the dream While the masters spread the nightmare Supremacy is a dangerous delusion Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Taking the knee for another minute of silence The Black Lives Matter protest yesterday in London Huge, angry and mixed crowd Will the message get through Beyond the social distancing dystopian fantasy Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Victoria Station South view from a bridge The post-apocalyptic look of a deserted London The Hiroshima feeling without the dead and destruction But the palpable fear of a contagious ignorance spread by the rulers An unmasked girl in red shorts hurries along, and I wonder If she is social distancing or looking for a soul-mate […]
We remember the halcyon days But not for the same reasons We were not on the same side of the partition The Berlin Wall was still standing in their heads They thought that only one side had crumbled Even if they robbed it from the people They always thought it was their victory Now their […]
The strange myths of the Church of England Associating the fallen soldiers with the Christ As if every war fought by the Empire was a Crusade The years passed and the dead still numbered more Suddenly in 2020 old faith and new fear took separate ways Churches were closed and the last believers left outside […]
The propaganda geniuses strike again No better time than bedtime at all times Wonder if it would be safer under the bed Maybe not because of the crocodile Plasma horror for the seven year olds Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Galleries