Urban landscapes
The sky pattern reflects on the riverside mud River Thames barrier has a mathematical mind of its own It will compute the tidal effect and the river flow and all thing super-human It is a machine with no room for poetry just steel and concrete locks But nature plays around and above laughing at the […]
Cycle and re-cycle like some flawed magic trick Rubbish heaps grow into mountains, cable cars rise to new heights The dismal skylines of a runaway cornucopia consumer society Packed in airtight containers and shipped to economic colonies Symbolic ride from East India on the Emirates Meridian Line Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery […]
Appearing at the River Thames shores near the barrier lock Spiraling towers that I imagine as Tolkien’s Rivendell Castle The elven king’s last refuge stands here shining under heavy skies We are part of our fantasy when we make pictures with one eye closed We wake when the shutter snaps to a CCTV world where […]
Corporate finance life size tombstones stand on Canary Wharf Standing shafts of steel and glass erected to some immortal CEO’s ego Cathedrals to the capital, endless cornucopia and Black Fridays Towers of a thousand sills, diving boards for the storms to come Pyres for dying Empires that were deemed too big to fall Photo Hugh […]
Like a surrealist yet hyperrealist painting with colors borrowed from Salvador Dali No melting clocks here, everything is fully automated including the sunsets Nothing may ever happen, empty driverless trains transporting invisible passengers A foretaste of a tasteless purgatory upgraded to heaven level Dungeons of a brave new world built on primeval fears Photo Hugh […]
Foreboding skies and crumpled waters set the scene A view from the bridge over Thames River at high tide The seas come to lap at the feet of the monuments In the distance the eerie dome of Saint Paul’s cathedral rise Atop of Ludgate Hill the human’s attempt to appease their Lord Reborn out of […]
The slow burning fires of a wintry sunset cast a faded glow on a boulevard of water Harsh winds come rushing from the seas shredding the clouds into blue-gray tatters But time hardly leaves ripples and wrinkles on the face of the old river A man-made prism, standing in its likeness of a Bohemian crystal, […]
Standing in line along the muddy River Thames embankments Like giant glass and steel refrigerators in an open-air display Indifferent seagulls and other urban birds feast on the low ebb decay Something grand and yet decadent reflects from this skyline of human vanities Dying immortals at the Nuremberg stadium under black white red banners The […]
A view of Clapham Junction, from the vestiges of the industrial revolution Looking from a passing train at all the lines, the web of a poisonous black widow I see that human vanity has set its altars and towers made of gold And the shard casts its shadows over the streets of White Chapel Across […]