Don’t Fence Me In
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: fences and gates
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Thoughts on Gates and Fences
My childhood home was surrounded by fence, bordered by tall cedars – we had a secret to keep. I learned not to trust neighbours. I learned the price of shame. At the back of the yard was a gate that opened onto a field and beyond that a wooded area. There I found serenity, connection, […]
Read MoreFences In Black & White (with poem)
Look at us building fencespretending we have differences do we not hunger the samehunt in the same places do we not strive with equal intentbuild our nests with the same ferocity forgo passion to survive?Let us stop pretending let down these walladmit to our vulnerabilities align our purposesfight a more fearsome foe. (Cee’s black and […]
Read MoreLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Fences
Fences? My first reaction was that I avoid fences in my photography, and now that we’ve moved into a neighbourhood without them, I will not be able to participate. Then, I revisited old photographs, and what do you know? Fences! The featured image is a garden gate at the Butchart Botanical Gardens in Victoria, B.C. The […]
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