Monday, 15 August 2011

Cemetery Pure

You look into his face and your third eye opens up as if from some latent slumber and a pressure builds as clarity ensues like the moments of an untimely wake up while deep in a dream state. This is a man entrenched, consumed and ensconced in a level of spiritual purity that requires ceremony and offering for every task of the day, washing, eating changing clothes, all is a careful meditation. The imposition of this energy is literally palpable.On...

Sunday, 14 August 2011

Waiting for the Light

The day is defined by its light, generating a myriad of moods in its intensity or lack thereof. The light that warms our skin, just five minutes before it splays and refracts into the rigidity of our atmosphere, was created in the intensity of fission and its raucous ferocity. Something born of such violence casting shadow and light on our moments, our lives, capable of creating clarity and confusion simultaneously is nothing less than an ongoing...

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Drive by Shooting

Bali has changed, radically. It was inevitable as we all know and those who live here see it ravenously digesting itself and reconstituting that matter into something different, its origins strewn amongst the waste but still prominent, hiding behind a curtain of pseudo westernisation. This is most prominent in its southern regions, a victim of its own success and phoenix like quality of literally rising from the flames to begin a new path to destruction...