INSIDES

Insides series

Selected images No.1 - 24
March, 9th 2020 - March, 9th 2021

Insides is a series of images and a poem made during the Pandemic lockdowns of 2020-2021.
Each was taken within the wall of our apartment on the south side of Rome.

Insides

We have been here for a year. 
In this land of insides.
A whole world bound to within places. 
The four walls. The locked door. 
The dark corners of the mind.
The voids and vacuums of negative space. 

I have felt trapped here. 
Forced to turn my gaze inward.
To sit in the stir crazy swirl.
To lumber through sleepless cycles of hyperactive apathy. 
Countless glances out of windows, seeing only interiors. 

But in this land of insides,
I noticed, one day, a thing that had always been; 
Little moments of light finding their way in. 
Sliding through Persian blinds to fall softly on the walls. 
Bending through half drunk glasses of water to display their plumage. 
Flickering in the fleeting shadows like tender wings. 
Stark and stretching in the morning like a yawn. 

Behold these little moments,
Collected like stars in a jar.
Each an effortless and graceful gift. 
Each a reminder for me that,
In this year bound to within places,
There are wordless, dancing shapes which come in, 
Unbidden and brilliant. 
To illuminate the way back out,
Into the world,
Again.