


sunil shah photo journal








This photograph was taken in Cologne, Germany. I like how it reflects the current economic crisis. None of this crossed my mind while taking the picture, however retrospectively, the context takes effect. The mannequin heads represent/reflect those people in the world who live to consume (not consume to live), what future awaits them in the current light of things?
I was listening to a band called McCarthy, an English band from the mid eighties and this song by them works well as a backdrop to this theme.
The Vision Of The Peregrine Worsthorne
In Fleet Street I lay down to sleep
In the seediest journalist bar
And in my sleep a vision I dreamed
From afar
In celestial mist made of light
An angel that blinds mortal eyes
This vision I knew knew no wrong
Only right
He took my hand and showed me things I'd never dreamed
The veil blinding me was lifted
And truth shone, a beacon beaming
The vision said softly to me
"The people are becoming too free
And if you want to sever the tea
Oh baby
Peregrine is looking grim
The economy is falling to pieces
It seems quite hopeless
Stand steadfastly by the friendly in exchange with free
Broadcast calls for order and law
Yet all shall be well, all shall be well"
The Holy Ghost bid me be bold
For wisdom that's weight out of old
Could will if it was spread among men
Once again
The vision departed me then
And I awoke cold and distant
I knew my mission
From: McCarthy, I am Wallet, 1987.
See: http://sances.info/mccarthy/about.htm
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd4YYVk_S4A
notes: Sir Peregrine Worsthorne is apparently a right-wing political commentator in England, and formerly the editor of the Sunday Telegraph.






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