Not a Rothko

Not a Rothko is a photography series using shapes, colours & textures from the streets, largely around East London, to celebrate the small details in what may usually go unnoticed or be condemned as ugly. In other words ‘dirty walls and pavements that could go for a £mil if they were framed nicely’. Some of these photos are then used to inspire poems.

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^{“God of every beautiful thing, make us people of wonder. Show us how to hold onto nuance and vision when our souls become addicted to pain, to the unlovely [...] Grant us habits of sacred pause [...] Let the mundane swell with mystery that makes us breathe deeper still.”}

^{- Cole Arthur Riley}

^{womb space

a baby in a cosmic web
waiting for the world to spin itself
alive once more _

ancient but appearing new
like animal tracks just seconds old
in fresh December snow}

^{all the places i have been}
^{a memory scattered
like the feathers of a bird
in a soft open sky

precious and fatal
asking for witness:

this is where I've gone
this is who I've been}

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