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Waiting for the customer the tourist and the real collector Street calligraphers sit patiently as they have done for centuries Art culture and symbolism the rhetorical alphabet imagery Each letter is a poetic symbolist image like an abstract painting Assembled they become a whole book and its illustrated story Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The summer day comes to an end The kindergarten toys are stowed away Little soldiers’ dream of a children’s PLA Space cadets and majorettes dance away in your head Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
A railroad and an umbrella, the initiation voyage Two rails that will meet in the infinity according to geometrical theories Reality is a place between the emptiness of beginning and of that the end Life follows its track under its own umbrella under sun or storm… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
It was raining sun like a storm of fire A girl huddling and hurrying under an umbrella Skirts the billboards of the premises of promised lands Great flaming tomorrows under the yoke of a sun-baked army Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The multi-lane speedway crossing challenge Like running the gauntlet in the early Americas time The dream of the better other side is always haunting But the meaning of the crossing remains mysterious Until the voyage is accomplished, if it is ever accomplished… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries