Christmas is coming.

Saving it for the bottom drawer.Mk.2.

Photo Booth

Shootin' the rapids at Bedspread Falls.

Small domestic crucifiction.

                       
                               
                                        A vibrant and delicate creature captured in mid flight
                                             pierced through the wings to a small crucifix.

                                                        Sometimes life can be harder
                                                        than we ever thought possible
                                            and we find ourselves trapped in a world of pain
                                                    
                                        
                                          when our souls want to soar on a summer breeze,
                            and to shimmer in sunlight and make rainbows with the morning dew
                           but unfortunately,life's a locomotive that chews you up and spits you out. .

cocoon

                                 Sometimes feelings can become cocooned in our subconscious

                                               because they are too painful to confront.
                                            They lie dormant, wreathed in silken  layers
                                               until suddenly something awakens them,
                             and they burst out startlingly vivid when we are not expecting them to.
                              

Saving it for the bottom drawer

                                         In times gone by,a girl would spend all her waking hours
                                                 stitching intricate designs onto linens and lace .
                                                    to be placed in her bottom drawer
                                   along with all her hopes and dreams of marriage and motherhood.
                                                  Pristine, immaculate, perfectly pressed.
                                                every stitch and stamen a longing for love.
                                                What if the drawer were to become stuck,
                                                     what if it were never to be opened?
                             If she was to fall in there and be trapped amongst the doilies and damasks
                                       she might expire between the heavy folds of a bedspread.
                                                 If only someone could ruffle things up a lttle
                                                    to spill a little colour amongst the pale.
                                             Where is the passion ,or will that come later,
                                                                  If it comes at all.
               

Dunce. Who must wear the pointy hat of shame?

Doppelganger.

                                 
                                                     A tangible double of a living person 
                                                    in fiction, folklore and popular culture.

 

                                                        

Angels, Devils and Death-Watch Beetles.

The places .in between

                                              Like Christopher Robin halfway up the stairs,
                                              I like the places in between.

                                              The two and three dimensional,
                                              The naive and the sophisticated.
                                              The cultured and the kitsch.
                                              The nice and the nasty.
                                              The beautiful and the beastly.
                                              The noble and the naff.
                                              The sacred and the profane.
                                              The pure and the putrid.

                                               Little stick man is coming to life.
                                               and a spirit bursts out of little chalk house.

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                                               Madame Butterfly is very photogenic,
                                               The camera loves her.

                                               As I photographed her I started to feel
                                               like David Hemmings in Blow Up.

5.    

Madame Butterfly appearing in Soft Toy Porn.