Once Again

November 2, 2023February 22, 2024 — Art, Beauty, Dark, Desire, Film Photography, Iconography, Light, Literature, Love, Memory, Metaphysics, Mystical, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Romance, Symbolism, Time, Truth Beauty, We Dream, Writing — 3 min read

Once again I walk in silent rooms and gloomy galleries. Dark portraits gaze from gilded frames at tragic ghosts who walk through walls in fruitless quest to escape this place of shuttered light and time forever stilled. Where memory waits to be recalled by […]

Coda

February 10, 2023September 18, 2023 — Art, Church, Dark, Film Photography, Iconography, Light, Literature, Memory, Metaphysics, Mystical, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Symbolism, Writing — 2 min read

We are the true believers, we are the chosen ones, We want your pretty children, your daughters and your sons, Bring them to our party, let them drink our wine, Tomorrow we will take them to work our deepest mine. We are the source, […]

The Global Christmas Carol

November 23, 2022December 16, 2022 — Art, Dark, England, Film Photography, Laugh at a cretin, Mockery, Philosophy, Photography, political commentary, Rage, Rant, Uncategorized, Writing — 5 min read

Now is the winter and everyone is discontent, made worse by the global elite who hoard trillions of money, like so many Ebeneezers. It will do them no good in the end because they can't eat it. They can, of course, burn it to […]

How to find yourself in the dark

February 2, 2022February 5, 2022 — Art, Ballet, Boomer's Story, Dark, England, Eroticism, Film Photography, Iconography, Light, Literature, London, Love, Memory, Metaphysics, Music, Mystical, Night, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prokofiev, Romance, Symbolism, Theatre, Uncategorized, Winter, Words, Writing — 3 min read

Lockdown, hibernation, false dawns, abandoned plans and lost time. The dark despair of the endless nothing; and yet the glimmer of a tiny light far, far away in the dark distant future will always be visible regardless of how much the black void tries […]

The Garden

January 9, 2022January 17, 2022 — Art, Dark, England, Film Photography, Gardens, Iconography, Landscape, Light, Literature, Memory, Metaphysics, Mystical, NAture, Night, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Romance, Symbolism, Trees, Uncategorized, Words, Writing — 3 min read

Walking in a garden that once was beautiful, where the heady aroma of rare exotic plants filled the air and the dazzling palette of their flamboyant pigments filled the eye. We are not lost, we are visitors, guests among the garden ghosts of a […]

…the quiet waters by.

November 10, 2021November 14, 2021 — Art, Dark, Film Photography, Light, Literature, London, Memory, Photography, Poetry, Short Story, Symbolism, Uncategorized, Words, Writing — 4 min read

I led her down the unkempt grass slope of the green pasture to walk along by the canal, where the oily black water stared up from the cut like the eyes of a slaughtered horse. The distant thrumming of traffic and the occasional drone […]

Eurydice in the half-light

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021 — Art, Dark, England, Film Photography, Landscape, Light, Literature, Metaphysics, Mystical, Night, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized, Words — 1 min read

The last light is fading away,The last birds sing before the dark.We are here in a beautiful garden,Somewhere between today and tomorrow, The path is a maze of twists and turns, The scent of lavender floats in the warm air,Intoxicating every breath we take,The […]

What The Darkness Saw

August 3, 2021August 18, 2021 — Art, Dark, England, Film Photography, Iconography, Landscape, Light, Night, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized, Words — 1 min read

The evening fades to twilight, light begins to close its eyes, colours becoming drowsy, soft and muted until only blue remains. Birds and insects fall silent; there is only the silver sigh of quivering Poplar leaves aroused by the breath of the zephyr. Behind […]

Light! Light!

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 — Art, Boomer's Story, Dark, England, Film Photography, Iconography, Light, Literature, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Pretentious Old Bollocks, Uncategorized, Words — 1 min read

We are inside, looking out. We are in darkness, we want the light. In the distance, a glimmer; the door of perception is open, walk – don’t run. Cold steel and primate genes to keep the lights on, we invent, we survive. Keep busy, […]

Evanescent Revelations

Category: Dark