Sidelines
Perched on the sidelines like a flock of hummingbirds Performers take a short rest before restarting the show Ruffling their feathers, polishing the rhinestones of their crowns Bodies oiled like sleek machines waiting for the action Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 2
Music and joy are highly contagious in Notting Hill The sidelines catch the fever and become the centre of attraction Let the music play every one will find the beat and his own rhythm And all the colors spilled in the streets, they broke away like Humpty-Dumpty And all the Queens’ men and all the […]
Done away the horns, chains and molasses of the past masquerades Meet the cyberpunk cosplay S&M ladies in leather nails and latex outfits New trends take over the sidelines the iconoclastic icons of tomorrow The virtual reality and the violent video games foretell the next revolutions The voodoo tradition is temporarily eclipsed by the virtual […]
At the far end of the sidelines of masquerade under the awnings Spectators hide and seek their desires behind their personal masks A young couple share the different levels of their own emotions An older man stands stone-faced and unmoved like a sculpture Like many, he came here with a heart-load of memories Photo Hugh […]
Life is a spinning wheel of fortune on fire We sit on the sidelines and watch the spanish armada rocking itself We see Kublai Khan and his giant fleet defeated by a divine wind Watching in awe our own life playing like a movie before our very eyes Until the last film spool is spent […]
While the noise and the glee spread through the streets A young expectant black beauty waits on the sidelines A peaceful, almost remote expression in her vague gaze Something like a deep connection with her inner future The quiet Black Madonna standing still on the Hill Her eyes see us all, her lips say nothing […]
A reveler stands bemused and dazed on the sidelines His gaze lost behind the reflection in his shades Is it the continuous flow of semi-naked dancers in the street Or the joy enhancers that fill the happy balloons Combined with the compulsive beat erupting from the music rigs ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
On the threshold of a dream, so said the Moody Blues Two ladies squeeze in a doorway watching the flow From the sidelines, the Masquerade looks bigger and brighter Like the city lights seen at night from an airplane window The living memories of the first Carnival, the first crush The first heartbreak… Photo Hugh […]
Life on the sidelines where the crowds mix and mill The laughing ones, the laid back and the hurried all meet The dress code is no code and every girl is free to flaunt her advantages The competition is tough and the bright oranges stand for their chances Like the golden apple from the Hesperides […]
Standing on the sidelines of the mainstream A kind of balancing act between grunge and punk A cryptic message running like a rune for your eyes only The body becomes a telegram from the soul for the world to read Fingers are numbers for the mathematical minds to add the odds Piercings are passages opened […]