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Waiting for the customer the tourist and the real collector Street calligraphers sit patiently as they have done for centuries Art culture and symbolism the rhetorical alphabet imagery Each letter is a poetic symbolist image like an abstract painting Assembled they become a whole book and its illustrated story Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The ubiquitous mobile cycle repair shops At almost every street corner in Beijing A young girl gets her flat repaired on the spot As spectators provide traditional vocal assistance Photo Hugh Ardoin Quiet Days In Beijing Gallery
Pages missing from the little Red Book Walking like a stray dog along Beijing streets I met the physical expression of “e pluribus unum” The “bourgeois”American Dream in need of a short skirt Beauty has reasons that reason may ignore Especially on high heels… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
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 […]
Slaughterhouses with towers are called castles We send sheep in battalions followed by wailing ambulances As the sun it shines high and bright in a cold blue sky Stray clouds spread veils of transparency over the universe’s nudity And a dark wall stands tall between the dream and reality To blind the naked eye of […]
The Bridge of Freedom spans the Rio Parana Between the free trade city of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay And next door Brazil with a tax free exemption on all you can carry But you have to cross the bridge on foot in a wire mesh fence corridor Running the gauntlet of tax free for […]
Ciudad del Este a frontier city at the Iguazu Falls At the common border of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina More than a multi-border town it is a thriving human cluster With an official population of about 300 000 souls But many many more of the soulless type The second largest free economic zone in the […]
Like the pit stop at Ben-Hur’s chariot race The organized chaos of an African market Where confusion of an artful palette of colors Set an impressionist scene where lights and dust play Languid bodies and reclining souls, a couple flirting in the distance In a haze of a burning spotlight reaching its zenith in the […]
Happenings build up and dissipate like running street battles It is the Notting Hill smoke and spirits induced dance fever Let the children in yourself play pretend, the divas and daffodils game Dance is a life reading of the long-short road from seduction to possession Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
From the top of the well you get a glimpse of infinity The vast nothingness of the desert that moves and breathes It is the “thing” that kills or let you live it is both cruel and gracious Like a “femme fatale” it will play with you in the manner of a cat To suddenly […]