Fear
Freedom comes in many different shapes The one-way unipolar thought process Shall lead you from one fear to another To finally beg for any kind of slavery There is no light after the darkness The allegory of utopia Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The night will take its quarters over London And the Saint Paul Cathedral once a beacon of light Is a mere tourist attraction sinking in the darkness In times of fear and pandemic of the aeons past Fervent crowds would congregate, seek protection and pray Today’s Ministers of God obey to Ministers of Government Leave […]
Strangely enough I was reported by a member of the public For taking this picture Doctor Strangelove is still lurking Spreading his red button itch Symbols are stronger than reason We live in a world of paranoia and fears But Doctor Big Brother is looking after us In the end we will all get sorted […]
Cruella De Vile beauty impersonation Beauty often rhymes with cruelty Maybe Sacher Masoch is to blame But masochism existed long before His Venus in Furs was the illustration Of the mechanisms of faith and fear In the industry of religions… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
We sit by the river of our life and remember Carnival’s unique and intense life explosion The virtual rendering is an insult over the injury We have all lost to fear what courage took so many years to build… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2011 Carnival Gallery
Good humored troublemakers move down Chepstow A girlie pack shouting and prancing making the best of Carnival The shrinking hill as the police block more roads every year They have announced that this year’s event will be cancelled Collective punishment looms as fear mounts in the higher circles I assume they believe that joy is […]
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