Feathers
The rowdy crowd closes on the performers Movements are restrained and light grows dimmer As in a rainforest progression gets hectic Light comes trough a canopy of feathers It is the dream of Africa and its wilderness The land of every beauty with a thousand faces Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
In African culture holding hands is the expression of friendship It has a very different meaning than what ‘Westerners’ would infer Friendship is a strong asexual bondage, almost unbreakable Two girls holding hands, one with feathers and the other not Showing that in many an image there is more than meets the eye Photo Hugh […]
All clad in red ready to paint downtown Young beauties shake and ruffle their feathers Deep unflinching glances, stripping your soul Who is the wolf and who is the little red rider ? That is the question Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Changing moods as the party lags on Spirits and smokes wear down the toughest The crowd follow the music trucks like sleepwalkers Dancers ruffle their feathers for a last performance Night will fall on Carnival and the fires will burn brighter Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
It is the nothingness she wears that make the difference You can feel the temperature rising as the feathers fan the fires A global warning of an impending mass destruction Catching the police and the elders unawares Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
The music rigs inch their way along Chepstow, booming and blaring Frenzied crowds mill around as the showgirls swiftly cut their way They are trailed by a wake of white feathers like stratospheric ships Wearing a few inches of cloth and rivers of rhinestones Like mermaids in this human sea, they will lure the homesick […]
Like the Greek feminine figures towering over the believers’ heads Caryatids of other times hold the temple and the skies above Surrounded by clouds of feathers, the Olympic creatures look after us The apparition of civilization in Greece following the Egyptian invasion Come what may, the Mitochondrial Mothers remind us of our only origin Hugh […]