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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 Hits: […]
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 […]
On the threshold of a dream, so said the Moody Blues Two ladies squeeze in a doorway watching the flow From the sidelines, the Masquerade looks bigger and brighter Like the city lights seen at night from an airplane window The living memories of the first Carnival, the first crush The first heartbreak… Photo Hugh […]
Floating like a white ghost in a black crowd In his mouth a red balloon with white spots An hallucinated magician with a poisonous shroom The Masquerade is a kaleidoscope of illusions They are apparitions that belong to hallucination A photograph may record or distort the instant Maybe it is just some kind of surreal […]
All dressed-up gran making videos of the unique moment Looking askance and half-surprised by my portrait shot In a world of selfies where phones are touted as cameras Real cameras look suspicious, probably the paparazzi syndrome Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 19
In the twilight zone between all the shades of shadow The black odalisque dances, oblivious of the outside world Surrounded by yellow feathered showgirls Dancing dandelions, dancing with the lions Photo Hugh Ardoin Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 12
A couple of revelers prance and dance The girl wears a “one love” shirt symbolic of the inseparable pair They wave their arms with phones and drinks like the Hindu deity Shiva the creator, reproducer and dissolver, the destroyer and benefactor A four-armed living statue the image of the creative and destructive power of love […]
The angler throws a line to catch the glittering gold fish Attracted by the flash of a rhinestone the feather of the lure Young swimmers call the aspiring sinners, like distant mermaids To catch their victims in fishnet stockings and drag them down into the deep Hear them sing, hear them wail Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Columbus the non-commissioned admiral, the Genovese adventurer set sail with three ships and the blessing of the Queen and the Bishops of Spain in 1492 It all started with a series of errors at times when the shape of Earth was still uncertain, before Galileo recanted his theories in 1633 So Columbus discovered the Americas […]
Every year, nature provides its recurring sweet manna At the very gates of the Eden Garden Along the edge of the infinite sand waves Under the shade of a roadside tree The gatherers sell their catch of the day The bright yellow fish from the trees A cornucopia of golden mango, the forbidden fruit Photo […]