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Last Images II
Tag: travel
Last images
During my last few weeks in Korea, I made one final push to photograph the environment I called home for so long. Despite my tone of voice of late, I am making valiant efforts to reorient myself, this mostly involves going to the pub, as well as quaffing a few foaming ales, my reorientation includes [...]
A good deal of confusion…
Still trying to get my head on straight, I have the neck thread into the shoulders, but maybe the thread has worn on the fixture or on the head. Toggling, wiggling to get the thread in place, the satisfying couple of the track of the thread so that the light bulb blinks on into full, [...]
Wasting time in a café (until evening time thereabout)
…“THE DEATH OF LOVE OF ANYTHING…”written on the front of a cute girl's t-shirt.I hate people who wear sloganed t-shirtsas if it speaks volumes about their “life philosophy.”The kind of people who might say“I went to the University of Life” but work in an office.You cannot experience the death of anything you live beyond | [...]
April in Seoul
The title is a dead give away for this post.Been sitting on this set quite awhile & finally got round to having a dabble with them. I was visiting my pal Omar, a musician from Morocco. I happened to, at this time, meet a very interesting man called Saad, also from Morocco. We met outside [...]
Lunch notes on the Selfie (noon-ish)
Lunch notes on the Selfie (noon-ish) …A Selfie with Biyang island behind her | a sea “glittery as jewels—ㅋㅋㅋ.” She shudders at the squeaky cute voices : this habitual conformity to “Selfie...ㅋㅋㅋ” | people queueing to take photos in designated “PHOTO OPPORTUNITY” areas. She deletes the photo & vows to take no more. The Selfie [...]
Homesickness in Birmingham (late morning)
Homesickness in Birmingham (late morning) …The smell of rice I missed the most. I walked round Birmingham | my nose aching for the familiar scent of it —just 1 bowl of rice to ease the cramps of homesickness. I cried in public for a bowl of rice. For the sound of steam ejecting from a [...]
The light of a place (dawn)
The light of a place (dawn) …Whatever place I visit has its own specific light. Jeju’s light | is an aside | a confirmation of the usual mask the weather wears —marginalia of the wind & wet’s intent that makes the grass still grow in cold & vines tighten around the trunks of trees. Seoul’s [...]
Bright & early she goes to Hyeopjae Beach (before dawn)
Bright & early she goes to Hyeopjae Beach (before dawn) …The deplorable amount of rubbish —balled up paper cups with mushy fag butts & phlegm | a gondae ajeossi in expensive pastel golf clothes stood outside the 7/11 smoking 1 fag after another | never finishing a whole one before dropping it in front of [...]
Falun Gong (still rheum in her eyes)
Falun Gong (still rheum in her eyes) …As she is leaving The Comfort Inn she stops to watch a snippet from a KBS documentary : “They would drag us away for thorough medical examinations. Test our blood | take urine & stool samples| check our reflexes with a soft wooden mallet —our eye sight too. [...]
