Tag: Imagination

Faces On The Fountain

by Ebb Then Flood

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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

by Ebb Then Flood

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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’)