All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
stairs
MOVING INTO MÉNILMONTANT
A new place to call home… painting new tales onto old walls in Ménilmontant, Paris…
Before…
Yes, I do make cutouts of furniture from paper to see what will fit where (I am a patternmaker, afterall!!)
The Magic Team Stories Movers (hijacked friends)…
A light at the top…
Those now famed 5 flights up- no lift…
And finally, furnished and familiar…
A little home baking to make it truly home (Apricot and pistachio cake)
A place to write new tales…
Home Sweet Home, all decoration, photographs & hard climbing by Damien B. Donnelly
SECRETS ON THE STAIRS
Where turrets twist
light leaps around steps
long since merged
with the marks,
caressed into carpets
made bare by the burdens
they now bare,
secrets
stored in stairs that turn
ever onwards,
ever upwards,
always reaching for the rest
of the story
never truly told in the light
still leaping.
All Words and Photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
Photographs taken at the Musée de la Vie Romantique, Paris, France.
Damien B. Donnelly 