National Gallery
The corridors of time connect with images of a distant past Visitors are explorers and travelers, sometimes wanderers Through awe inspiring beauty and horrors of natural or man-made history Heady dreams and burning mystical escape routes Leading to the inescapable end either in heaven or in hell Almost a choice… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
Holding hands tight looking at the cross Her sharp nails piercing his palm And his wound from a spear came as a humane gesture Freed from desire, crowned atop all the solitude of suffering This is the message of love from above You will suffer a thousand deaths Only to be freed by the promised […]
A young Japanese girl listens to the virtual guide at the National Gallery One of the three famous paintings of the 1475 battle of San Romano The coveted masterpiece by early Renaissance by Italian artist Paolo Ucello Battles in arrested motion for centuries as civilizations spin away Frozen and silent images traveling in time with […]
Art is lined-up against the walls in museums A beauty contest or a police identity parade Wardens stand guard at the swing-doors Curators armed with binoculars in lookout miradors Taste is served in huge plates ad nauseam and we relish But the artist who poured his damned soul as a last varnish Did he imagine […]
Falling back in the old tracks of times past Beyond the augmented reality and artificial intelligence Away with the so-called MMA modern gladiator games Here we stand as spectators to Lady Jane Grey’s 1554 execution An emotional 1833 painting by Paul Delaroche, some three centuries later The Nine-days Queen was only sixteen, Joan of Arc […]