An Illumination

Raindrop on my camera lens

hankies wet with humidity

we trudge an unfamiliar road

to find a place, highly recommended.

Backyard Civilization's art gallery

Up the silent stairs

into the artists’ foray

shoes off

our lives left on hold at the entrance

we behold:

Part of series of paintings entitled "Fool's Garden"

gardens of extraordinary colours,

peopled with fools from varied ages,

Part of painting on paper entitled "Time wounds all heals"

and heels wounded by time

having stepped on seeds of different generations.

The virtues of a village

Tea-stained pencil work about replanting the virtues of a village

captured our imagination

as they walked past us

to a new location, a new destiny.

Our eyes were drawn away

to the warm welcome of a fur ball

Resident at the gallery examines our bags

following an inspection of our luggage

and begging for a caress.

Only to be drawn back to an explosion

of colour and design -

mesmerizing psychedelic art.

Though bats fluttered by

they were second to the dismembered limbs

pulled apart by a generation of women

without thought or virtue.

Derrida continued to contemplate on us

Painting of Derida

As we examined Humpty Dumpty before the fall

Series of drawings loaned for the exhibition by Jidhil. Top right corner reminded me of Humpty Dumpty.

and emerged with a new set of feathers.