It snowed the morning she left us. Not the heavy, bulbous snow to yearn for at Christmas, but shallow and sparse – so thin you could walk between it without being touched. In the early hours she was as delicate as one of those flakes… Delicate, complex; beautiful. This time […]

Gliding through a shimmering gilded crescent, bright cerulean rides the surf without order. Contented in an inch of perfect symmetry, the warm ocean current magnifies his brilliance. Fearsome and powerful but eremite in nature. He takes flight on winged appendages, pursing his sting for a deadlier prey. Man-o-war beware, he […]

Sweet fruit laid bare on a rugged table, supple skinned and furred. To juxtapose the craggy eggshell-tempera smeared around his stretched face. From widows peak to concave dimple, soft and milky like a new-born babe. Shrivelled and unwanted like crumpled paper, now a different shade of flesh. A riverbank of […]

From cinder and spark comes a rising spirit, as sagacity soars on the breath of the wind. Organic, tangible, alive with the smell of nurturing seedtime. A faithful follower of your bold distinction; an unbearable calling of purpose bestowed me. Descant duality plays over my doubts, as the morning song […]

A burst of white plasma blinds innocent young eyes, incandescent… iridescent… until all humour melts away to a bone-white socket. Flesh flayed to the bone then sutured from the heat. People vanished into nothing; their shadows left behind. Permanent depressions, burned into wood, etched onto stone. Pale apparitions tread scorched […]

He burdens his palette with a murky rustic hue, of pied pastel colours – rose, beige and blue. Chiaroscuro light envelopes an evening of retreat, as a millennia of faces illume from glowing halos. Silhouettes are redundant in this puppet show escapade, and Dr. Caligari conceals his cruel masquerade. Residing […]

A spurt of smoke lacerates the air – a musky haze, it lingers, then dissipates through beams of cheap disco lights. Absent tiles expose a ramshackle gable hanging overhead; the pending danger diverted by a G&T – ice and a slice to make the cliché complete. Stereotypes sit in a […]

Hoplites march to a bloodied beat, void of all notion – their impending demise. The sickle shines brightest when sun catches blade, and children and wives dance frenzied in mind. They are but ants to deities of old, no man can compete with the terms they have set. Inner conflict […]