Split Screen

Human Condition, Photography, street photography 1 Minute
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Holland House Library  London September 1940 morning after an Air Raid

Split Screen

“Order in the midst of Disorder, Outside but also Inside”

This photograph, taken the day after an Air Raid on London in the Fall of 1940 has lived as an icon on my desktop for a few years.

I click on it intermittently to remind myself how resilient we are as human beings.  Story-telling animals who in the midst of chaos and uncertainty keep moving forward. Reading, writing and telling our story as part of our survival.

Split screen, calm and chaos,  our story being written day by day.

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A story or poem follows me around for a while, I write it down to get it out of my head and sometimes after rereading it seems universal enough that I hope it might also speak to someone else. One thing that has become clear is the photography and the writing seem to be morphing into one, the photograph being the muse for the words or the words for the photograph.....and then a quote I find from someone who had the talent to put what I am trying to say into a few precise sentences.

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12 thoughts on “Split Screen”

  2. Truly! And would that we had visionary leaders today who would lead us “in the art of being fearless,” as led back then. In the meanwhile, we’ll look to the poets n writers to sustain that vision, w/gratitude❣️

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