solemn and glove

'Solemn & Glove (Natasha)' 8"x10" © Lloyd Pollard 2008
black & white photograph
First published in this blog.
Previously unpublished and not exhibited.

Isn't she lovely?
Isn't she sad?
Sitting there in her own shadow?
On the verge of what, only she knows?

What can it be, such solemnity?
Such unspoken thought?
Such silence of being?

Is there no light?
Is there not somewhere a hand to hold?
A hand of hope?

Yes.
Just beyond her fears, self-doubt, sadness and pain lies a comfort and salvation in the unseen hands of elders, ancestors and (G)od.
We are never alone.

soulful...

'Sons' 8"x10" © Lloyd Pollard 2008
colour photograph
First published in this blog.
Previously unpublished and not exhibited.

I am...
all that you know and don't know
all that you love and don't love
all that you fear and don't fear
all that you perceive and don't perceive.

I am...
all that is mysterious and not mysterious
all that is divine and not divine
all that is painful and not painful
all that is wise and not wise
all that is possible and not possible.

As I am, I am nothing, anything and everything
from boy to man
from father to son
from lover to friend.

This is, as I am.

My Secret

'I am Beautiful' 8"x12" © Lloyd Pollard 2004
black & white stressed & painted photograph
First exhibited in 2004 "Faces" solo show.
CreArtive Gallery, Toronto.
First blog publication.


There is something I am not telling you
There is something I have not told anyone
It's a secret but not a secret
Can you tell what it is?
Can you see what it is?
I've known it for a long time but I wasn't sure that people wanted to know it
Have you figured it out yet?

Ok, no more suspense, here is my little secret:

"I am beautiful"
That's all I wanted to say.

Future.Sexy.Tribal Lovers

'YV and LEC' 4"x6" © Lloyd Pollard 2008
pen drawing on photograph
First published in this blog.
Previously unpublished and not exhibited.

Is there anything more lovely, complex and dangerous than love?

" Brittany & Justin
Romeo & Juliet
Anthony & Cleopatra
Napoleon & Josephine
Lucy & Desi
Bonnie & Clyde
Bogart & Bacall
Shah Jahan & Mumtaz Mahal"

Beverly

'Beverly (Fall in love...)' 8"x12" © Lloyd Pollard 2008
nails on mounted photograph
First published in this blog.
Previously unpublished and not exhibited.

" Don't just fall in love with your personality,
fall in love with your self
fall in love with your grace
fall in love with your spirit
fall in love with your life
fall in love with your creativity
fall in love with your inspiration
fall in love with your peace
fall in love with your silence
fall in love with your hope
fall in love with your joy,
claim your pain and
fall in love with you.

lloyd pollard . June 2, 2005
(Updated October 17, 2008)

Reflection...

'There is no Prada' © Lloyd Pollard 2008
photo montage
First published in this blog.
Previously unpublished and not exhibited.

" Do you see me?
Designer self right off the shelf?

Flavour by the fable.
Charisma by the label.

Personality by the pound.
Divinity by the sound:
Givenchy, Gucci, Giovanni.

Able me before Calvin disables me.
Able me before Prada wears me.

Design my divine and redesign my mind,
therein exists my essence sublime.

Face #2

'Adorned' © Lloyd Pollard 2008
painted photograph (acrylic and pen)
First published in this blog.
Previously unpublished and not exhibited.
(Private collection)

" What do you see?
I am nothing like you, you are nothing like me.

I am sight with no sound
I am both fearless and profound.
I am dark with subtle light
I am more than your simple sight.

What do you see?
What is my mystery?
Seek with your mystical mind to understand my sacred divine."

- lloyd pollard . October 13, 2008

Sacredground

Sacredground © Lloyd Pollard 2008
colour photograph
First published in this blog.
Not previously exhibited.

"I am an instrument of the energy that surrounds me.
I am ritual. I am sacred. I am divine."

- lloyd pollard . April 26, 1999

Kerrie as Goddess

Kerrie © Lloyd Pollard 2008
black & white cut photograph
First published in this blog.
Not previously exhibited.

"In my essence you will find things unseen
Things I have always been
Since time has come about
I have defined mystery, men and life
In my various personnas
You have loved me, worshiped me and died for me."

- excerpt from the poem "Queen.Warrior.Goddess"
by Lloyd Pollard © 1995

Face #1

© Lloyd Pollard 2004
black & white photograph
First exhibited in 2004 "Faces" solo show.
CreArtive Gallery, Toronto.

Your goal in this lifetime?

Let them know you 'as you are'
Not as they wish you to be
Not as they expect you to be
Not as they hope you to be
Not as they imagine you to be

But as you authentically are.

lloyd pollard . January 2, 2003

Sista Motion

'Sista Motion' © Lloyd Pollard 2008
black & white painted photograph
First published in this blog. Previously unpublished and not exhibited.

" Today I know with a certainty why I create - I do it
to share the myth that is my experience in the
hopes of healing myself and making others
aware of their own experiences and its power to heal them
and give their life value and meaning."

- lloyd pollard . November 10, 2002