Notting Hill Carnival 2018
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
Changing moods as the party lags on Spirits and smokes wear down the toughest The crowd follow the music trucks like sleepwalkers Dancers ruffle their feathers for a last performance Night will fall on Carnival and the fires will burn brighter Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Taking advantage of a lull in the body wars A purple odalisque rests on the sidelines Flaunting her deadly curves and ruffled feathers A hunter will become the hunted and befall unto her charms To spend the short remainder of his life in the clasp of her sharp talons Such is the fate of the […]
Standing still in the Caribbean tide, making portraits In the maelstrom of arms and hands bottles and drinks Faces emerge with almost no time to strike the pose At the moment of eye contact, reality strikes like a spear Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Expert weaving looks like an Egyptian hairdo Deciphering the hieroglyphs of a mysterious message The lost perspective and the reading of the stars Thousands and thousands of light years away But the larger picture stands in the way Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
As the day grows hotter and wilder Birds of stranger paradise start a mating dance A flutter of colors and polyester feathers Very rare sight for the old ornithologist I am Could easily provoke the viewer’s cardiac arrest Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Like the little exotic dancers who spin on the top of a music box Between security and the huge sound truck, the young beauty peeps With blue feathers from the mythical quetzal fanning over her head Caribbean girls, like Columbus before, have landed in the cold Channel summer The dream will last the time of […]
Hiding beauty behind a bejewelled mask is supreme refinement We can’t wait for the one thousand and one nights to pass So we just stare in awe as the apparition slowly disappears There will be no revelation, no redemption or salvation… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Shaking the black and green bubbles Two blondes swimming in a black sea High hopes to ride away on a high tide Who cares about tomorrow’s low ebb Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
From the cup to the lips a long journey just started Waving her soft hand the beckoning to drink the potion And become enslaved to some mysterious fever Lying awake and alone on a bed of flames A mild foretaste of the coming tortures of hell Voodoo Princesses offer the ineffable blessing of blindness Photo […]