Estates of Emergency
Walking along the corridors of urban decay Underground passages with unheeded warnings And improbable imitations of Sauron’s Eye A police state with no police Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Strangers in a stranger paradise As the rubberized descend on Regent Street Taking the Sphinx’s riddle on a stride A four-legged future for something lost and found Wonder what will the ferryman’s fare be … Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Wandering along the Thames footpath Somewhere around Westminster, found the flotsam More probably, the jetsam of some shipwreck of times Beyond the brick walls, the fuzzy horizons The unthinkable, almost titanic… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates Of Emergency Gallery
Surrounded by razor wire wrought in a crown of thorns A pink playground where a pink elephant touts a wobble The pink swing looks like gallows decorated for Christmas The pink barriers and artificial lawn, a happy dystopian match Waiting for the redundant Halloween clowns… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
While the Islander’s Lawmakers debate wether the Kingdom is an island The “Perfidious Albion” stands white and tall across the Channel Staring at the mainland’s Empire as the game is about who blinks first And the lemmings they are waiting at the top of the Est Cliff and elsewhere For a signal from the skies […]
A message with bottle along the Thames Walk Symbolic allusion to Frida Kahlo’s famous phrase “I tried to drown my sorrows in alcohol, But the bastards learned how to swim” On a riverbank where towers rise their poker faces Swallow whole populations for the night Throw them up in the morning with that hangover taste […]
A brick and stone office tower building Standing tall in the City of London There is a balcony to address the crowds Like the times of Mussolini and his goons But the ruler at the window peeps A pink flamingo he is in full control Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Sunday days , the empty streets conjure Gods of all feather Kings, Queens , Presidents and Ministers have built high altars that look like catafalques To preach and summon the sheep to the gates of their slaughterhouses Some are more demanding and require the lamb to fight for the right to die All dressed-up to […]
Those were the days my friend, in 2011 when flames of rage spread out of control The whole East End was on fire after the “lawful killing” of Mark Duggan The beast must die, as they cull the “animals” in the ghetto reservations Can you forget, can you forgive the unrepentant abiding by the law […]
Would Hieronymus Bosch have imagined, back in 1490, what heaven and hell would have become Humans spreading like a fatal pandemic from all parts of his famous triptych to flood the Earth in ever newer twisted virtual delights Flying above Sao Paulo is a surrealist voyage by itself, the stunning image of a post-apocalyptic battlefield […]