One Twelve Publishing Poignant Pics post No. 7 by Paul Biddle

I'm   very    pleased 

                         to share my post about Claude Cahun


on One Twelve Publishing    featured Poignant Pics

Poignant Pics is a blog series where Angela Chen and Blue Mitchell have asked how

a   photo  has   changed the  way     you  look  at  the   world

Here is a link to my post        

http://onetwelvepublishing.com/2016/10/poignant-pics-no-7-paul-biddle/

Claude Cahun

Over the next few weeks they are featuring the Poignant Pics of the photographers

Fran Forman    Tami Bone   Jonah Calinawan   Paul Biddle

We are in a group exhibition called 

A Cartography of Dreams

at Dimbola Museum and Galleries 

produced by

Reclaim Photography Festival

The Cartography of Dreams

I'm very pleased to be taking part in this exhibition at Dimbola Museum

Julia Margaret Camerons' former home

on the Isle of Wight

www.dimbola.co.uk

Huge thanks to Maxine Watts of Reclaim Photography Festival  who organised and made this exhibition possible 

https://reclaimphotographyfestival.org

A Cartography of Dreams

14 October 2016 - 1 January 2017

Dimbola Museum & Galleries

“Dreams are true while they last. And do we not live in dreams?” Alfred Lord Tennyson

In this exhibition, four photographers set out to answer this question posed by Alfred Lord

Tennyson some 150 years ago. Their artistic exploration maps the contours of their

dreams and imaginations—much like cartographers outlining the shorelines and mountains

of a new continent. For what are dreams, but a map to move us forward on a quest

for understanding?

And on this journey to awareness, one artist beckons with gesture and symbol to a quiet

blue world, on a search for meaning and purpose in an unknown future. While another’s

attraction to the strange and bizarre, melded with a dose of reality, creates an incongruence

that implores us to look again and again. A third artist uses colour as an emotional

springboard, moving us through visual dreamscapes that merge magic realism with surrealism,

considering complex relationships along the way. And a fourth artist looks through a

lens of hope and possibility, longing to see the unseeable and to know the unknowable. A

quartet of dreamers and explorers they are, taking us along for the ride.

Julia Margaret Cameron, in her timeless and moving work, sought to ennoble photography

by combining the real and the Ideal. It is the hope of these four photographers to honour

her legacy by creating art that encourages viewers to embark on their own expeditions,

map their own dreams, and perhaps alter their directions as a result.

This exhibition features thirty one works by four international photographers: Fran Forman,

Jonah Calinawan, Paul Biddle and Tami Bone. The exhibition is produced and curated by

Dr Rachel Tait, Dimbola Museum and Galleries, in association with Maxine Watts, Reclaim

Photography Festival. For more information about the four artists and the exhibition,

please visit:

Dimbola Museum & Galleries

www.dimbola.co.uk

Tami Bone

http://tamibone.com/

Jonah Calinawan

https://amillionsuns.com/

Fran Forman

http://www.franforman.com/

Paul Biddle

https://paulbiddle.com/

Maxine Watts

https://reclaimphotographyfestival.org/

Freuds’ flirty Fenestration Frock

Brooder of   Beasts  in   the   Nursery  Of   Nonsense

It    was   over  a  while   ago   now   when   I   first   saw  her   likeness

to   be   honest   it  was  more  of   a   glance  than  the  full Fred  Astaire

But   a   Glance  has  a   Glint   and   is   almost  a   Peep 

hush   hinting   far  more than  a  gap  or  a  Gawp  can   do

The Incubator

so   when   did  Freuds’  flirty  Fenestration  Frock     Turn  into

the   Hatch  hatch  hatchery   of  free  Spirit  Jars

Everyone   knows   It  was  Tantamount  the 23rd   of   course

Freuds' Flirty Fenestration Frock

I notice  the  Countenance   of   a  little girl  complete   with Enigma

  She   held  a leash  most   fine   and    Lepidopteran

All  of   a Whirrr   and   Myopic  on the move

Much   to   my   delight  I recognised the flutter and tink Tinkle 

of  Count   Muldivos’  Clockwork  Moths   vanishing  up  her   sleeve

The Leash made of Moths

So   this   was   the   work   of   the Cunning  old Count

His   Automata  the Envy  and   Relish of most   of  Old  Europe    

Best   not  to   mention   what   hides   behind   beady  eyed Masks

and   Modesty   Panels  Alive  alive  O

If you would like to see more   of   the Cabinet of Curiosities series

please click the link below to Paul Biddles' website

https://paulbiddle.com

T he   K e y  T o   A l l   O w ls

I ‘ v e    tol d   you   b e f o r e 

I    T r i e d    to   t e l l    you   l a s t   time

A L L   O w l s   have  k e y s 

F  or g e t   t h e   t a l e s   o f    T A   WIT    TA   WOO  

T H  e y    m u c h   p r efer   k e y s

J u s t    l isten   to   t h e m   R aT t l e    t h o s e   

S k e l e t o n         K e y s

E v e r y   K e y   n e e ds    a   hole  

to   be   a   t r u e    K e y

The Key to all Owls

a n d   s o m e   s a y      O w l s   a r e   W i s e

O w l s   a r e   I c o n i c   I r o n i c   a n d     L A  L a   c o n i c

a n d      a s   t h e y   s a y       T a  Wi t    T a   W o o

Editors Note :  This photograph is part of Paul Biddles' series

The Aviary of Strange Birds

Please click the link below to see more of the portfolio

https://paulbiddle.com

 Frame        fra ming             F R A M E D            F RAMES

 I   have   always    struggled    to choose

 how  to frame    and mount    my images

They have never   ever   L ooked quite right

when mounted with large white borders in the traditional way

often causing me to scratch my chin and go Hmmmmmmm

So I decided to try showing them Borderless

W I T H O U T   B O U N D S

S A N S   B O R D E R S          as   we   used  to   say

A L L    o f     S u d d e n

t h e

 I M a g e s   s p o k e    f o r    t h e m s e l v e s

C r y i n g   a t   t h e   t o p   of   t h e i r

P A P E R Y   V o i c e s

w E   h A t E d   t h a t   b i g   e x p a n s e 

O f   W h i t e

W e   a l l   b r e a t h e d   a   h u g e 

S i g h   o f   R e l ie f 

Recently I exhibited some of my Cabinet of Curiosity images in a Surrealist Exhibition

 For the first time ever ( for me ) I showed them as borderless prints float mounted. 

I chose a fairly simple black frame with a renaissance feel. This is how they looked.

The Triptych that time Forgot

Centre Panel of Triptych

Left Hand Panel

Right Hand Panel

You   c a n   s e e   m o r e   images  f r  o m

P a u l   B i d d l e s

C A b i n e t s   o f   C u r i o s i t y

J u s t   C l i c k   t h e   l i n k

b e l o w

https://paulbiddle.com

Egg Albumum Fact or Diction

            Egg   Albumum      Fact   or   Diction ?

You   always   know   when   you   hear   a rat  

a     tat  tat     at   the   door

   It’s one      of those moments    isn't it ?

Are    you pleased     or 

are    you     disturbed ?

Well    in this    case

    I  was     Over The Moon

In    waddled   Egg     Albumum

The   Walking   not quite    talking

Al bum      Ph oto   graphica

I   just   had  to   take   a   snap

of   this   momentous   event

and   here   it   is   for  your

delectation   and   delight

Egg Albumum

She   

 didn’t    b    utter   a word

not   a   one   nor   a   2two

I began to understand

what   I had taken   for a quirky grin

was in fact     an   upside   down 

Cape   of   Good Hope   triangular   stamp

not   a   mouth   at   all

more   like   my   lips   are   sealed

with   an   interesting   stamp   taboo

Suffice   it  to   say   in   a   postage   stamp   way

I  wasn’t   in   the   least   bit    perturbed

I   spun       Egg   Albumum    around

and  noticed    a zip    most fine

yes   a      zip   zip pity   zip

running    almost all    the way 

up or down    her     back

much    to my delight    the zip was made

of    interlocking    ants   yes

ants alive alive   o  all   holding hands

Fun   with   Formica   or     what

For   those   of   us  interested   in   the  

anatomy   of   the   zip

yes   yes     there was a zipper   handle

a    fine  Black     Scorpion

with      a smile      in   her   tail

  as   they  say  in   the   zip   trade

with   some   trepidation

and   with   a clatter   of   a carapace   or   

two

I   undid   the   zip

imagine    the   sound

  of  a  fencing match    with   ants legs

and   a     scorpions      smile

for bile   and        health und   safety

 reasons 

I   am    not     allowed

to show   you   a   photograph 

Enough   of   this   zip   for   now 

What   spilled out   of old   Egg Albumum

tummy   tum   tum

Twelve      ancient      Sun   Drawings

All   Curled   paper   brittle

Crackling     with    the  dust   of   ancient   Light

prints    per   say     

some     say    replications of reality

we   say   simulacrums  of    Netheregion     Nonsense

Indeed   some   of   the   said    Images

were made centuries      before 

the    advent  colander   of    photo graphy 

How    could    this    be    possible   ?

Quite   simply

Anything   is   possible   with   a   smattering

of  tooth  paste ,    a   kind  tinder box

and   Precious   temerity      by   the   sea

Editors   Note   :

The   Twelve photographic   like images   found   inside

this   most   unearthly   Phot  o  Album

appear  to   substantiate   the existence   of  Count 

 Muldivo’s  Travelling  Cabinet of    Curiosity

I’ m   still   stroking   my   chin   on   this   one

I  just   can’t   accept   the   existence  of  photos

several   centuries   before   the media  was  invented

OK    I   can   accept    the zip   made   from 

  interlocking  ants and stuff

You and you and you

You know whom I mean

can see some more 

of Paul   Biddle's work

at

https://paulbiddle.com