At The Radio Station V

‘At The Radio Station V’

…if we could see radio waves, maybe they would look something like this, as in comic art. but i am content with the aural magic they bring across airspace…there is something about music, news, or whatever, coming to you from another physical place in real time that the internet doesn’t quite replicate and which leaves the visuals to our imaginations…

Faces On The Fountain

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One wild drinking fountain in Barcelona beckons, when time comes to slake your thirst.

Three human faces, appearing as if in a masquerade, frame the fountain’s taps .

Above them a supine lion crouches beneath an armoured crest -paws, claws and all.

The whole shebang elevates a utilitarian water dispensary into an artful world.

Sustenance for the imagination as well as the body.

And that lion sure looks like he could do with a drink…

 

 

Cloud’s Illusions

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Spring in Auckland – a stack of sun, reams of rain – and cumulus clouds like these reflecting both.

Clouds are for dreamers.

You can see what you want in their shapes.

Giant sheep and rabbits; Jesus; your late father’s face; portents of the future or maybe the outline of a Central Asian country…

Anything you like, everything  you could imagine.

All illusory, but not necessarily in a bad way.

Queen Joni once sang :

” I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

   From up and down and still somehow

   It’s cloud’s illusions I recall

   I really don’t know clouds at all ”

             – (Joni Mitchell, ‘Both Sides Now’)