Freedom
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
I wish you all viewers and friends a Happy New Year A new year would not be complete without the good resolutions I found the 2022 motto at the back of the statue’s pedestal Of the Bomber Command Monument in Green Park Words of Pericles (495 – 429 BC) about Freedom Bombing may not seem the […]
Before the final freedom becomes a fantasy Daydreams on Southbank in phase of extinction Before image becomes a virtual human right And video games beget entitled entities That may claim they have been virtually molested A prelude to the responsibility of the killer robots To exonerate the human that controls it No ‘caveat emptor’ for […]
Looking West from the Millennium footbridge beyond the suspended Blackfriars station The sky is on fire like a Guy Fawkes dream jarred between leaded clouds and Westminster The rock, the hard place and the narrow escape We have seen our freedoms disappearing over the horizon Like a sunset but without a spark of fire Hunched […]
The allegory of a greener other side The gates between Heaven and Hell Cherub standing guard in a portakabin Freedom could be on either side But most probably on none The illusion is where we live We are on probation for life… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
On a Sunny Summer Day of 2021 Two young ladies came to Whitehall To witness the rowdy crowds Rioting for freedom to rave Right in the middle of Whitehall They were widely ignored by the crowd of commoners And hopefully remained out of harm’s way Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
A peaceful moment leaves ripples in my memories Long strolls along the Regent Canal to taste the seasons I think the Japanese are wiser to have twenty-four seasons We have a page for every day in our diaries Even if they remain blank We are probably waiting for Siri To do our mental chores… Photo […]
In a foreboding world of forbidden dreams We need masks to hide our unspeakable fantasies And a winged imagination to escape the rules of dystopia It is this threatening meta-thing that we need to fight We can be the cuddly teddy bear strategically nudged Waiting at the behest of a cute handler’s whims Or we […]
What it takes to rise the London crowds Is a rave and spirit deprivation But freedom has many pennants Or should we say standards Freedom is like water It has no colors and it flows You may hold it or contain it or a while But in time it will always elude capture Photo Hugh […]
Chasing the police away Protesting for the human right to party The bare essentials of freedom And the movement takes shape If I may say so… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery