Sunday, October 18, 2009

Working man's blues -

"The Lorry Man"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... as you heft a load of dust that was Magherafelt,
then reappear from your lorry as my mother's
dreamboat coalman filmed in silk-white ashes ..."
- Seamus Heaney

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5 Comments:

Blogger SusuPetal said...

Timeless nostalgia in this pic.

4:36 AM  
Blogger Mick said...

SusuPetal:
...in a galaxy far, far away...

7:09 AM  
Blogger Leslie Avon Miller said...

Nostalgia does seem to be the emotional subject matter of these last two - poignant and pulling at the heart. And what a good eye you have Mick!

9:27 AM  
Blogger John M. Mora said...

i see an ewok.

12:51 PM  
Blogger Mick said...

Leslie Avon Miller:
For the past few weeks I've been looking at a lot of old photographs. I suppose that nostalgia would be a natural outflow of such study.

John M. Mora:
Is it attempting to re-purpose the lorry?

8:55 PM  

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