All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
A look back at the final week in Paris…
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All photographs by Damien B Donnelly, Dec 2019
All photographs by Damien B Donnelly
The final photograph is me, today, back at Alesia, the 14th arrondissement of Paris where I first lived over 4 years ago when I came back to live in Paris for the second time. Today I was back here for lunch today with Mary, my dear Irish friend, who I met in Paris when we both first moved here 23 years ago. Circles closing and connections continuing…
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
All photographs by Damien B Donnelly
All words and photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
SOUTH KOREA, 2019…
All photographs by Damien B Donnelly
I
build
sentences
in the mind
that had no
existence before,
a platform to ponder
in a place that doesn’t
exist, in truth, until it’s been told.
I move through this hemeroscopium
like an architect building a house
into a home, unearthing light
to contrast the shadow
my thoughts have
been confined in,
a helix that
spirals out
from within,
that will return
and move on, return
and move on, up towards
that light turning transparent,
sentence into substantial structure,
considerations becoming concrete
clarities that form walls, fold out
into roofs that consider creation
compulsory, stories rising from
basements, tales spinning
off, casting reflections
upon the windows
of this place,
this mind
that watches
the sun rise and set,
time twist and turn, again
and again, the circles, always
the spiralling circles, even in a straight
sentence, even in a slotted surface.
I build spaces to house beds and
beams and bright lights to lie
before this tower of truth
and watch the visions rise
and fall, like the sun, like
the laughter, like life,
like tales, like
sentences
that never stop
while always changing,
an ancient arch now foundation
to modern moment, a true temple
of contemplation in this space holding
space, light and space, shadow and
space, sentence and space, space
between the sofa, space
between the
syntax.
All words and drawing by Damien B. Donnelly
Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real.
This is a repost for a week considering Creation
Journée du patrimoine 2019 (European days of Heritage)
Saturday morning at: École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris…
Chapelle des Petits-Augustins…
Cour de Murier…
Cour Vitree…
Amphitheatre d’Honneur
Bibliotheque…
All photographs by Damien B Donnelly
Light catches glass, catches colour,
creates contrast on walls and water.
Light leans in and leaves illusions
on lines where once there was shadow,
buildings become boats baring sails
to beckon the breeze which billows
at its ease through colour caught
on glass which is captured in light.
All words and photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
This is a repost for a week of colourful imagination. Photo of Louis Vuitton Foundation, Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
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