Slavery
Freedom comes in many different shapes The one-way unipolar thought process Shall lead you from one fear to another To finally beg for any kind of slavery There is no light after the darkness The allegory of utopia Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Young dancing beauty holding a bottle of rosé Wine and dance for us, you very young one Our throats have run dry and tears flow from our eyes The last moment has come the gag and the gallows Masquerade has changed sides, now parading in Westminster The masks are the new rule but of fear […]
Notting Hill Carnival is the mix of generations and cultures It was designed by Claudia Jones Cumberbatch as such To ease the relations between communities bringing them together Racist murder and attacks against the black community led to riots Carnival was the best solution in a post-war England fraught with tensions And widespread racial prejudice […]
The tip of the black iceberg Black Lives Matter is not new The Fight has been going on Under different slogans and names It stems from a common history Genocide, Colonization, Slavery Supremacism and Racism Justice in the name of one But for all the victims of racism The many unknown soldiers… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
In an Orwellian society bent on discipline and punishment Happiness should have long been declared a human right But faceless rulers and censors sold democracy for profit While know-it-all techno-archangels decide about good and evil As in the times of slavery, Carnival is a rare opportunity to be free Forty-five years of cold-war have numbered, […]
Two girls parade their open-mindedness on Chepstow Like the closet is not large enough for the woke times Race and gender mixed agendas bodes ill for the future The deep and the shallow meet halfway where the quicksands are Slavery, colonialism and the genocides need proper recognition and reparations Freedom of choice is of the […]
Every year the Notting Hill Carnival brings together over a million people They come from the world over although the majority is Afro-Caribbean A celebration of masquerade as it was performed by emancipated slaves Slaves were not allowed to participate in masquerades and Carnival It was the initiation to freedom and a warning to the […]