HEADS - HEAD 2

HEADS - HEAD 1

THE NEXT FEW POSTINGS WILL SHOW A SELECTION OF 'HEADS' SEEN IN AND AROUND OXFORD.

WINDOWS ARE..............

Windows are a portal to a different world.

The inside looking out, or
The outside looking in.

Life looking at death, or
Death looking at life.

Heaven looking at hell, or
Hell looking at heaven.

Viewpoint is everything.


T.van der Kelf .

'TIS A FEARFUL THING'

'Tis a fearful thing to be no more,
Or if it be, to wander after death;
To walk, as spirits do, in brakes all day;
And when the darkness comes to glide in paths
That lead to graves; and, in the silent vault,
Where lies your own pale shroud,to hover o'er it,
Striving to enter your forbidden corpse.


JOHN DRYDEN

THE ARCHWAY.

The Archway at St Andrews Church ruin above Church Ope Cove on Portland Dorset.

Gravestones of victims of the Black Death can be seen in the graveyard.

It has been reported that a mysterious cowled figure has been seen passing under the archway.

THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS.

All the customers have left but the atmosphere remains. This is the essence of the aura of past shadows.

The Gardens of Moreton Tea Rooms- Dorset.

A PRESENCE.

For a moment of time he stood face to face there with a presence, that was neither man nor beast, neither the living nor the dead.........


From- The Great God Pan
By- Arthur Machen, 1894