Assignation–
The smell of honeysuckle
carried by the breeze
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A real life art exhibition!
Between the 6th August and 9th September this year, I have a real live actual photography in a real live actual gallery!!
Photography has been my passion for as long as I can remember. Well almost, I mean it has been my passion for nearly 30 years but I can remember before that, I guess my passions before that mostly ran to the next A-Ha single, which care bears I had and reading…
Anyway photography has been my passion for a really long time… and I have, for a number of years wanted to have an exhibition. I have got as far as thinking about it but have always put myself off with negative thinking a sort of internal assumption that I couldn’t do it. I can’t blame anyone else, I never really spoke about it in any serious way.
Until one day last year when I mentioned it to Lucy from Portergirl who leaped on the idea with contagious enthusiasm. Spurred on by this I immediately googled venues in my area and emailed the gallery in the local theater (The Capitol) with links to my photos on Flickr . I was going on the principle that the worst they could do was say no, they were unlikely to be rude!
Much to my surprise, they emailed back within the day saying they liked my photos and would be happy for me to have an exhibition in their gallery, not long after that we had agreed dates and I had signed a contract!! I was in shock for quite a while, I didn’t really think they would say yes!!
So now I have a photography exhibition coming up, which still sounds extremely exciting, and daunting!! It is much more work than I anticipated but it is absolutely going to be worth it!
It is called Beauty in the Mundane and is based on the concept of seeing ordinary things in an extraordinary way! 
It is safe to say I am pretty terrified of this but also extremely excited!! I have no idea how to organise a photography exhibition! So far I have been concentrating on getting things printed, the next step is framing… and advertising…
I have got as far as making flyers, and a facebook page, but I suspect there is more to advertising than that…if anyone has any ideas feel free to let me know 😀
English Summer: a Haiku
Freshly cut grass–
Bunting flutters over
scones and jam
Morris dancing through the dark
Firelight reflects off masked faces
Swirling Tatters
Clashing sticks
Patterns woven in
the shadows between the flames
This was inspired by some dancing I did with my Morris side, we were part of filming for a movie and were required to dance lit mainly by fire.
This is an attempt at a Gogyohka, a Japanese poem of 5 line with no associated syllable count.
Shattered: a Haiku
Sunlight
on broken glass.
Life fragmented.
Apocalypse
Apocalypse —
On the riverbank
otters play
Limited edition…
Roses and chocolates
the startling red of
commercial infatuation
Limited edition love
available for
one
day
only
Just for the record, I am not cynical about love its self, just the commercial aspects of valentines day…
Cold: a haiku
Sunshine–
On footpaths
ice melts
Not one of the cool kids
On the outside looking in
alone
aloof
or forgotten?
Proffered hands of friendship
evaporate like smoke.
Unconsidered.
Uninvited.
Unmissed.
Always an afterthought.
Not one of the cool kids.
I don’t feel this a lot any more, but it was something I was thinking about yesterday. I felt like this a lot as a teenager, and it returns when my anxiety is at its worst.
Rage…
Ultraviolent–
Out of nowhere
Burning rage
Fuelled by stupidity
Undirected anger
burns me away
Rage against the world
Rage against the people
Rage
Rage
Rage
Some poems from Wednesday when apparently I wasn’t in the best of moods. I don’t know that they are my best work but they represented that moment perfectly so I thought I’d share them.
