Thursday, February 28, 2019
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Cinematic
The only thing I can say for sure about this picture is that the place is Darjeeling. I went there for the first time, captaining a group of fellow students, when I was twelve, in 1948. I would have been using a borrowed box camera.
I must have wanted the fountain to be the picture's focus, but now when I look at it, I see a lot of life, at the edges of the frame, and a woman in Tibetan dress walking briskly past. I wonder why I was apparently standing just behind a rickshaw, so that it frames the rest of the picture. I surely would not have chosen that composition intentionally. The Art Deco store behind the fountain has a sign reading "PRA..A..CO.", with panels beside the open doorway which presumably contain details of the goods to be found within. The protruding shop front on the right has signs reading "VISIONS" and "CIGARETTES". Everything else is a mystery.
In the light of the fact that this picture is old, and was taken when I was very young, the absence of great composition and photographic skill may please be overlooked.
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Bhashwati wrote:
Guzre waqt ki saral si tasveer.
That tibetan lady looks most elegant.
I am surprised film songs were never shot around that fountain!
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
Buried
buried
in the innards of earth
more than a million years ago
to turn into
coal, gas, diamond
volcanic exudate
or
something else
or
who knows
even perish
Friday, February 15, 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019
Inbetween
(1968)
once, youth
here and gone
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Anonymous wrote:
my thoughts on Inbetween:
The pile of bricks that your subjects are placed against is
what lies "inbetween" the 2 stages of life that they represent.
Rickety, uneven, collapsible life coordinates, a perennial
threat and yet the only support available.... all along their journey from
youth to old age.
Brick by brick they have put together the feeble
infrastructure of their existence with no other purpose than to exist.
An ancient cliche, c'est la vie
It also strikes me that despite their emaciated forms,
particularly of the younger man, they must be in possession of strong
spines. Had that not been so they would have been under that very unstable
structure and not beside it!
And then i see, in between the two sections of that apology
of a wall, a strip of green, episodic goodness and wellness that must make an
appearance in the bleakest of life journeys and sustain them.
Friday, February 08, 2019
Monday, February 04, 2019
Friday, February 01, 2019
Beyond the Shadows of the Distant Sky
where human greed and impurity
where air
does not contain the scum and filth
that man's neglect and indifference
spread and pollute
there, there beyond the shadows
of the distant sky
is the dwelling of the innermost core
of my mind and body
my being
my existence
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