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The Black Swan is a large member of the swan family, native to Australia. It was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, where it was later reintroduced. Captive populations have been established in places like Florida and England. Their plumage is almost exclusively black with white flight feathers. The majority form long term monogamous relationships. The term "Black Swan" became a metaphor that could be used to symbolize any event of great magnitude that was thereafter rationalized extensively with the benefit of hindsight. There are many events, even over the last decade or so, that could be referred to as black swan events. The reference to this bird, metaphorically, was probably initially made by some who were not even really aware that the bird existed. That is, in and of itself, a bit of a dark metaphor. #BlackSwan
I've tried to capture something slightly surreal in this, but also with a kind of underlying metaphor. One man appears to be walking towards himself, the other is walking away.
A metaphor for the pandemic #2
Outdoors during an easing of the restrictions for the pandemic in April 2021. The major infrastructure projects have for the most part rumbled along. Until this week anyway.
One of several projects, that explore photography as evidence amongst other ideas.
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Dijon Covered Market Detail - Abstract
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I DONT THINK THAT THE PROTEST IS OVER
To Quote Sir Winston Churchill:
"Now this is not the End - This is not even the Beginning of the End - But it is, perhaps, the End of The Beginning"
This was just the first step along what is a road the length of which we can only guess at.
I feel that this is just a respite before something else occurs that is serious enough to galvanise us again - do not become too complacent, she has not reacted yet nor has she been fired - this is merely the calm before the next storm.
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A visual metaphor of David Gilmour's guitar playing
In fact a pixel dedication to David Guilmour's ethereal sounding guitar work
David is not the fastest guitarist around
He just has an incredible sense of timing and space between the notes
An ethereal sound
Abstract notes begets ,,,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLOth-BuCNY&feature=related
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (David Gilmour on guitar )
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The town of Petworth was virtually deserted when visiting recently - this beautiful courtyard captured my imagination. It resonated for me as my metaphor for 2020.
Enticing beautiful plants and the glimpse of an open door to pass through - neither attainable because of the locked grilled gate.
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This visual metaphor is dedicated to my 78 year old mother. She has Alzheimer's Disease. The spark of life still remains in her eyes..!
''Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand in my native Hampshire. Until some time after the war, the squirrels of England had been red. I can still vaguely remember these sweet Beatrix Potter–type creatures, smaller and prettier and more agile and lacking the rat-like features that disclose themselves when you get close to a gray squirrel. These latter riffraff, once imported from America by some kind of regrettable accident, had escaped from captivity and gradually massacred and driven out the more demure and refined English breed. It was said that the gray squirrels didn't fight fair and would with a raking motion of their back paws castrate the luckless red ones. Whatever the truth of that, the sighting of a native English squirrel was soon to be a rarity, confined to the north of Scotland and the Isle of Wight, and this seemed to be emblematic, for the anxious lower middle class, of a more general massification and de-gentrification and, well, Americanization of everything.”Christopher Hitchens