"Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more" ~ Henry V

Courtesy of William Shakespeare, Esq.

“The morning time is the best time. My pleasant disposition prefers the world with nobody in it.”

Georgia O’ Keeffe

A peculiar relief befell during lockdown that of not being exposed to society. Scouting the streets masked, it was relief to be disjointed, othered and coupled with sense of liberation.

I note my photographs are devoid of humanity and I am drawn instinctively to capture shadows, reflections, hidden places, bins, debris, decompsoing creatures, behind the facade, what lies beneath, portals, signs, architectural clean lines, odd angles.

I am fascinated by the traces we leave; these exhortations, meassges, coded, indirect and multiple even in this small cathedral city where I reside. Having conversations with disembodied voices, covert and indirect.

The image I selected disturbs me deeply, the fact of the image of a face has been ripped or worn. I am ambivalent about being seen, and publishing here is an act of both ambivalence and faith, i am thrilled and equally terrified.

Unknown, uncertain yet compeIling.

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