an afterlife of sorts

chalk circles
scorching heat
a small orchestra
an old woman eating sunflower seeds
an even older man smoking a cigar
a sense of doom
gaudy attire
beautiful sharp objects all pointing in one direction
a moving target
a heavy, horned, angry moving target
a dance
an afterlife of sorts

fire fully externalized

anonymous fire artist

plaza de chueca, madrid

june 20, 2009

no risky business

we're cordially invited to smoke everywhere

there are condom vending machines on the street

no. one. ever. sleeps. at. night.

pedro almodovar?





visions of past and present lost in sangria haze

our flesh might turn out to be endowed with a soul,

but in the meantime...

flight of the witches

flight of the witches

francisco goya

museo nacional del prado

ancianos de madrid

grow old soon

move to madrid
make room for

a big smile

an espresso fuerte

a long afternoon at the steps of the palace

go on, grow old

because time is ticking

sudeley castle

sudeley! a gauzy sky of torn white stockings over iridescent turquoise. or, better yet, a castle wall without the castle. an explosion of a garden or, better yet, a peacock on the fence, to the left of the main entrance, right above the idle visitors' champagne flutes. and the winding staircase up the old tree? commissioned by one of henry viii's wives, ostensibly, to climb further away from dear henry and nearer the gauzy sky of torn white stockings over iridescent turquoise...

means of transportation

never has steam

blown so swiftly

into a turbine of steel

long rusted
(not the steam, the turbine)

,

cloudchitecture

having nothing to say is the most
beautiful thing to have happened to me. on a large meadow, near the steam train station, the clouds did
all the talking...

the fleece inn

animatronic sheep digitally rendered onto an artificially irrigated meadow

at the fleece inn
it was the height of asparagus season
and the hollandaise sauce was thicker than the local accent

over the bar, an inscription read:
"we don't serve women-
bring your own"

now we know.

stratford upon avon upon england upon the rest of the world

william shakespeare. two floors and an attic. small town. leather merchants. ticketed admission. legendary inhabitant. staff in period clothes. video presentation. souvenir shop. allegedly...

blenheim palace, a study in imperial glory

shielding one's face from the infamously perpetual english sunshine

hermes, flying as high as the duke of marlborough permits


precocious youth at the edge of the rose garden


the maze, carefully designed to waste 25 minutes of one's time

she accepted on the condition that he made her famous

thoroughly visitable

from a logical point of view

house window, oxford

jesus college grounds, oxford

house gate, oxford

logic lane, oxford