Photo Hugh Ardoin
Blonde in Shades and pink pants reading Sitting alone on a sunny London terrace Dreams float away but never meet A fluttering image in a waning summer light Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners 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 message with bottle along the Thames Walk Symbolic allusion to Frida Kahlo’s famous phrase “I tried to drown my sorrows in alcohol, But the bastards learned how to swim” On a riverbank where towers rise their poker faces Swallow whole populations for the night Throw them up in the morning with that hangover taste […]
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
A taste of the redneck pleasures on the Thames River shores The Brit quaff a few gin-t’s in the luxury atmosphere of a concrete mix plant Fine sands as fine as the finest cement , blue waters and turquoise polystyrene furniture Painted oil drums to match, the brand new brave new world has just arrived […]
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 […]
The love message on the wall will self-destruct After the breakfast at Tiffany’s the gold turned blue Luxury in spray cans will be delivered by glossy droids Art is safe in the safe box tucked under a huge price tag The visible has been replaced by tacky propaganda posters Paint my life in red again, […]
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
Inside looking out, reading the lyrics from the prison of our lives Living in locked darkrooms, pandering to whimsical social networks Parading our virtual intimacy in a real schizophrenic dream Alice is sitting by the mirror ready to walk on the wild side And Narcissus is falling in love with his own image in the […]
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