The Peacocks

one of many peacocks I saw in the Jardin de Bagatelle -  a group of peacocks can be called a muster or an ostentation - their calls could be heard throughout the park - like Wallace Stevens -
I heard them cry - the peacocks 

                   

Saraswati and Murugan

Marina Franca by Weegee

Alexander McQueen Fall 2008 / The Peacock Skirt - Aubrey Beardsley 
                                                            

          

Erté

George Barbier 1914

Ruth St Denis

Earl Kulp Bergey 1935

Melek Taus (ملك طاووس) - the "Peacock Angel" of the Kurds

peacock thrones

Rubens' depiction of how Juno gave the one hundred eyes of Argus to the peacock

The Peacock Room  - James McNeil Whistler

Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz - The Peacocks

jardin des plantes

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Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment

-Mary Oliver
from In Blackwater Woods

all images ©MA

Spring departs.
Birds cry
Fishes' eyes are filled with tears

-Basho Matsuo

Japanese garden, Musée Albert-Kahn

all photos ©MA

bye Mark

Student of economics and Brazilian jujitsu amateur - my friend Mark left Paris today, after two years here.  

Before leaving, he agreed to be part of an ongoing portrait series I am working on of Americans in Paris.
 
My vision : him leaping through the air in his fighting gear, the gold dome of Invalides in the distance.  Then he told me there are no jumping moves in Brazilian jujitsu - its all about ground fighting and submission holds.  So...

....so we just enjoyed a sunny yet submission-free Sunday morning - he got out his "big guns" (muscles) and we crossed paths with a band of French girl scouts and a gendarme named Philipe who let me keep shooting even through I didn't have the authorization.  (I bribed him with a Polaroid.)

©2010 MA

 

 

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