SIMON HOWARD

Photographs 1: Pix & Text
Home | Rough Cut | World's End | Cupid's Hypodermic | Photographs 1: Pix & Text | Photographs 2: Bodies & Buildings | Photographs 3: Three Cities | Photographs 4: Caribbean | Anglo-Tuscans | Poems For Translation | Children Of Manu | Living Inside Strangers | Sea Of Green - a poem about Iran | The Beggar With A Blue Violin | City Of The Dead | The Foreign And The Familiar | Photographs 5: Aisles, Arches, etc | Photographs 6: Stone, Rock, Shingle | Warnings In The Mist | Urban Imagination - latest poem | Photographs 7: Egypt


From the mobile phone...
 

WORLD'S END

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...the mathematics of the human face...

 

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WORLD'S END

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...the clock hands are travelling through one of the earth's several ice ages. Impossible to say which...

 
WORLD'S END

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'And answers kill art!' shouts Bartok, who has appeared beside him...
 

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ROUGH CUT

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Tom thought about the endless battle Europe had fought between collaboration and struggle...
 
 

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WORLD'S END

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In creating a decent work of art you have to go way beyond your own sense of good taste...
 
 

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Tom thought of Wagner, of Verdi, of the Archangel trumpeting...
 
 

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He wondered how long this beautiful city had been at war with itself...

 
 
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His mother, having spent the night with her other children on a pavement somewhere in another part of India...

 
 
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They shoved his hands onto a sheet of red-hot metal - but still he clasped a brush and painted...

 
 
CUPID'S HYPODERMIC

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'Love...is merely the exchange of two momentary desires and the contact of two skins...'
(Chamfort)

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CUPID'S HYPODERMIC

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I'd learned a lot of things myself in India, but forgiveness wasn't one of them.
 
 

ROUGH CUT

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The Czechs seem to pour a lot of sexual energy into making up for their emasculation by the Russians, thinks Tom...
 

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...she was convinced that dreams actively misguide us...It's not surprising we can't understand our art...

 
 
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...great art probably did more harm than good...it might in some way encourage barbarism and tyranny...
 

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Shakespeare's plays were full of synthesis, he said, like the great cathedrals had been before...

 
 
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What good do great works of art do humanity?...she should have been asking herself what the world would be like without them...

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'After the tsunami wave, we'll have the money wave - and that'll be much more dangerous...'
 

 
CUPID'S HYPODERMIC

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'The dream continues when you wake up. How you try to shape it shows your desires...'

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They make you think the whole universe could be contained within a cave...

ey make you think the whole universe could be contained within a cave...

They make you think the whole universe could be contained within a cave...

 
 
 
 
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You meet yourself in a place like this, he thinks. Even if we live inside ourselves as strangers...
 
 

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They make you think the whole universe could be contained within a cave...
 
 

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BLOOD ROAD

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We go from darkness
into terrifying darkness...
 

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How much more of a foreigner would Tom feel travelling among commuters in the South-East of England...?
 
 

WORLD'S END

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...she punctured the stillness of the Oxford afternoon with the sadness of her Tuscan lament...

 
 
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...here in the city of Faust and alchemy...
 
 

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He often travels without language, and frequently without maps...
 
 

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'Oh, how arrotating,' says Israel...
 
 

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Israel was sent to one of the charity's refuges when he was twelve...
 

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And then Tom sees the tiny old casteless woman in red...leaning on a little stick, like a child playing among the debris of the fishermen's huts...

 
 
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Later he will come to see the tsunami as the great social leveller of our time...
 
 

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Right, he thinks. No more distractions. Silence. Just me and my art...
 
 
 

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WORLD'S END

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...the lightning lit up the statue of Perseus holding up Medusa's head, the rainwater dripping off her severed neck like blood...

 
 
ROUGH CUT

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Anyway, she wondered, how can we possibly understand our art if we can't even understand our dreams...?
 
 
 
 

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It's so easy to come to the wrong conclusions...when you travel. When you don't have the language. When you don't have the map...

 
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'There is much talk in this new world, but not many answers. The words fly away like birds...'

 
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...he sees something begin to emerge from the tiny waves...

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He has the marvellous thought that perhaps we did it all without the help of God...
 
 

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'...for those departing who knows where...'

SIMON HOWARD

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