Neon lights
Music and lights on a hot Guangzhou monsoon night Silhouettes like Chinese shadow cutouts move away Bright neon lights befriend the traditional lanterns Billboards tout and shout the Orient Express American Dream Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Guangzhou comes to a new life during the night It becomes a rainbow of neon lights floating along the waterways Beyond the light-show, there is a forest of towers and concrete slabs Where the shadows of rare passerbys slip away like furtive foxes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
At the gentlemen’s club by the grocery stall Idle talk and banter for the end of day socializing Life goes idle at dusk, just before the night-shift Darkness will settle over the city like a blanket on a parrot’s cage Nighthawks and fireflies will come out from the shadow circle To assemble and flutter around […]
The fairgrounds of fairyland are bristling with neon lights Gawkers and rubbernecks nose in the sky bump in the alleys Battalions of budding sharpshooters show their skills at the ranges To grab giant trophy teddy-bears that came all the way from China Blinking gravity-defying contraptions like neon snakes from a cyber jungle Coil around the […]
Inner vision of the bowels of a Nostromo replica Looking for an escaped and illegal alien who fell from the sky The shuttle runs blind with a hissing noise along the tunnel We are departing for our final destination W have been departing since we were born Mere mortals caught in a spiral of infinity […]