Tag Archives: photography

Boats

Posted on September 10, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the shadow-stained haunt beneath the stone bridge a pair of empty rowboats have gently digressed and gone adrift from merrily merrily merrily to the edges of solitude mirroring the span and proof that … Continue reading →

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Set

Posted on September 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Where the moss grows wilder, clamoring to efface or colonize, or perhaps model a seasonable fashion makeover to the stone deity lotus-locked in stunning repose, who long since ceded his material crown to the menial … Continue reading →

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Pilgrimage

Posted on August 26, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Rainy Wednesday, visiting Ryokan’s hut— No one there, frog jumped.

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Quartet

Posted on August 23, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. A silent quartet, facing the mottled reflections of lives, unrecognized, emptying into a pool of dreams, wandering without claim or respite.

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Liminal

Posted on August 20, 2023 by John Biscello

There are tunnels at the end of the light leading back to passages marking our long day’s journey into night.

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Window

Posted on August 14, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Rainy day, through the upstairs window at the café, framed within the wrought-iron railing enclosing the stone ledge on which the potted plants sit, women in summer kimonos carrying closed umbrellas.

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Forgotten Temple

Posted on August 9, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Moss-carpeted stone steps leading up to the forgotten temple, fewer and fewer guests paying their respects to these hallowed grounds, a song of stately decay, of bones and overgrown grass, a rusted bell tolling absence … Continue reading →

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Sub-Versive

Posted on January 9, 2023 by John Biscello

It was a pleasure working with the supple-minded, vision-eyed, Michael Falasco, on the Sub-Versive photo series. Two hybrid snaps from our collaboration.

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Torch Song

Posted on December 13, 2022 by John Biscello

From the series, “Interior Lighting for Lost Cinema”

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In Our Solitude

Posted on November 27, 2022 by John Biscello

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