Lights
Looking at the windows of the surviving shops More than just a reflection I see a premonition The impending umpteen wave and collateral lockdown And I wonder what would happen if we replaced the PCR by an IQ test Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Just before dawn when the sky turns purple The cold mists of a yawning day spill into colors As beauty made by nature overwhelms the city From Lambeth Bridge Westminster at the East And the shard sinking its dagger into the sky While Vauxhall on the West catches fire Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes […]
If you can’t read her lips You may have to learn reading The message is not irrelevant It is about your impending doom You may be a billionaire But you chose the wrong career Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
This more than a writing on the wall And we need no necromancer to tell That as soon as we are born our fate is sealed But in the fantasy of woke and virtual worlds Sophism of science is the art of immortality Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
We are what we want to be But what do we really know about reality Through the plasma judas of our prison door Inside looking out or at least this is what we believe Freedom is like the light at the end of the tunnel All you have to do is put your head through […]
The last refuge against all prohibitions The speakeasy’s of the future Drinking ourselves into oblivion Waking on a tequila sunrise While big guns boom in your head Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
The window dressing is similar to street art It is free imaginative creative and ephemeral The purpose and constraints are different But they share the mural and temporary nature The single shot at the gawker’s eye Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
In the deserted London Streets some windows stayed dressed The Fortnum & Mason London tea flagship exhibits its wares A kind of irony owing to the circumstances where many will forgo luxury The shop is closed but if you have the lolly, luxury will lap at your door Breadlines are for the new poor and […]
Some years ago when shops were still thriving The windows were an exhibition of imaginations Ephemeral works of art changing like chameleons Colors, lights and reflections, camera action A silent movie playing to the music of the street Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
As we go dwindling in our minds like Algernon We look over our shoulder to see the lights In the dimmed space of our confined new life We are like mannequins in a window show Exposed and vulnerable behind an unbreakable glass Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery