reflections
The window dressing is similar to street art It is free imaginative creative and ephemeral The purpose and constraints are different But they share the mural and temporary nature The single shot at the gawker’s eye Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
Fantasy heroes are looking for a new role Real heroes have been sidelined for the sofa kind We are living strange times when fear is elevated to a virtue A very symbolic painting of Batman made of gathered people Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
In the deserted London Streets some windows stayed dressed The Fortnum & Mason London tea flagship exhibits its wares A kind of irony owing to the circumstances where many will forgo luxury The shop is closed but if you have the lolly, luxury will lap at your door Breadlines are for the new poor and […]
Some years ago when shops were still thriving The windows were an exhibition of imaginations Ephemeral works of art changing like chameleons Colors, lights and reflections, camera action A silent movie playing to the music of the street Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
As we go dwindling in our minds like Algernon We look over our shoulder to see the lights In the dimmed space of our confined new life We are like mannequins in a window show Exposed and vulnerable behind an unbreakable glass Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
In the windows that always hawk You see your own reflection And the image of what the other side will sell Matching your image with your desire is marketing The world of the street is rife with allegories Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
And the ladies parade undaunted before our gleaming eyes All but naked with small chiffon flags strategically placed Drawing tears of sadness and joy from the corner of our eyes Where their feathery bodies dance for a while before it all goes dry Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2013 Carnival Gallery
Egyptian Kings and Queens once carefully prepared for the long sleep The voyage that would take their other self to some distant paradise Get the rude awakening in the window-case of a foreign museum Exposed and exhibited to crowds as war trophies of a colonial war There is no rest in peace for the vanquished… […]
Outside, looking out as we drive by Safekeeping fortunes he will never behold An old man in a ragged uniform stands guard A container like a red wall, keeping worlds apart Heavily pregnant of its abstract load of value More than meets the eye, but forever unseen Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by any Means Necessary […]
Musing along the Chinatown streets at Leicester Square Mr Kong is the King of the 100 seat Chinese food outlets We wish you all “bon appétit” at the towering menu May you palate reach the Empire State of elation Yet we wonder who will eat and who will be eaten Blondes beware… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]