Solitary de-confinement on the Battersea banks Young girl appears to enjoy a musical zen moment Imagination is the privilege of the beholder While innocence is a rare commodity In our world of virtual reality Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
A lonely figure in a dim circle of light Playing music for the lovers and ordinary crowds Letting the sounds run free as he sits silently Like the starry nights we are billions of stars Light years away from each other But lovers are tethered cosmonauts Holding hands in the interstellar void Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Red smoke to mark the drop zone While the ladies jostle for the throne An the crowd, like a wave that never breaks Flows with the music down the avenues Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2016 Carnival Gallery
The writing on the road may tell the bus to stop But buses can’t read and no bus will ever stop And the dancers keep twerking and tailgating The street is filled with screams music and colors A surrealist dream is slowly filling your mind Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
A golden fleece looking for another Jason and a few more Argonauts Or is it a double image of the “SleepingĀ Gypsy” by Henri Rousseau A black wanderer, a mandolin player, lies in the desert beside a water jar Overcome by fatigue she falls asleep under a full moon A lion happens to pass by, […]