Alamogordo, New Mexico. Verging on ritualistic.
Sunday, 28 December 2008
Sunday, 14 December 2008
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Bank tube station - 11th January 1941
Bank tube station, and City of London Cemetery and Crematorium
On January 11, 1941 during the London blitz the Central Line ticket hall suffered a direct hit from a German bomb. The surrounding buildings - the Bank of England (the intended target), the Royal Exchange and the Mansion House - collapsed into the subways and station concourse, killing 56 people.
London, St.Pancras - Hackney - Easton-upon-Hill - Bethnal Green - Springs - Johannesburg - Durban - London - Edmonton - Tauranga - Durban - Auchterader ---- London....
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Monday, 29 September 2008
Sunday, 28 September 2008
desert dreams
Battersea, London
Sidney Nolan - Ned Kelly
[...]
Each night he must
be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams.
Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie
his rushing brain. He does not dare look out the window,
for the third rail, the unbroken draught of poison,
runs there beside him. He regards it as a disease
he has inherited the susceptibility to. He has to keep
his hands in his pockets, as others must wear mufflers.
If you catch him,
hold up a flashlight to his eye. It's all dark pupil,
an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens
as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids
one tear, his only possession, like the bee's sting, slips.
Slyly he palms it, and if you're not paying attention
he'll swallow it. However, if you watch, he'll hand it over,
cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink.Elizabeth Bishop - from Man-moth
Friday, 12 September 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008
departure I
Paul Day's "The Meeting Place"; St. Pancras station
It just occurred - I saw this as the leaving point. Which... melancholia: more resonate for me.
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Monday, 18 August 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008
where I wrote a letter...
Do
you still hang your words in air,
ten years unfinished, glued to your
noticeboard, with gaps
or empties for the unimaginable phrase . . . ?
A scholar of the world's castoff concerns.
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.
Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges
showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges
where weeds hang to the simple blue from green.
Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under,
drawing it unperturbed around itself?
Along the fine tan sandy shelf
is the land tugging at the sea from under?
Elizabeth Bishop
Photos: Shoreham Harbour
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Sunday, 8 June 2008
black cats
Neo-Egyptian Art Deco Carreras cigarette factory, apparently inspired by th discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun as well as the Temple of Bubas; Bubas was an Egyptian cat-headed goddess. A black cat was the emblem of the company, which made Craven A. Built 1926-8. Hampstead Road, Camden, London.
National Temperance Hospital - 1884; Hampstead road, Camden, London
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Sunday, 1 June 2008
moorgate
Moorgate Street station was opened by the Metropolitan Railway in December 1865. Renamed Morgate in 1924. The ticket hall was opened on 2nd October 1936.
Moorgate - originally a postern in the 2nd century Roman London City Wall; during medieval times was built upon and altered. Moorgate became a gate in 1452. The gate was demolished in 1762; there are only a few remnants here and there.
The gate was next to Bethlam hospital, which moved to the west of the gate in 1685. It was the world's first psychiatric hospital, and root of the word 'bedlam'
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