Date: 2003
Material: Silver Gelatin Prints
Size: 75cm x 50cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist
*N.B. Printed by Adrian Ensor
Description:
Here are a series of images I took in the Republic of Benin in West Africa. The work was created in 2003 on a trip to the source of the origins of Voodoo with the artist, Charly D'Almeida who lives and works in the Port of Cotonou. The meaning of the word Cotonou is "The Mouth of the River of Death".
THE WILL OF THE WORLD
Let us pray and hear what the world has to say, today.
Let us see, what's on TV, and listen to what we sincerely need.
Let us jumble every word and make up our pristine news.
Let us create a brand new vision for our brave new world.
Nations are spoon-feeding their trashy ideals upon us but
we are gathering strength. Seeing clearly; rising slowly.
We have bestowed upon ourselves the luxury of thinking.
Witnessing how Nations inflict their vulgar will upon us.
Nobody reads today or do they?
Well we do; and we are thinking.
Granting those deficient of will, the strength that is within us all.
The will of the world is now armed with the power of the word.
“In the beginning was the word”; we now know what that means.
And the word has been asleep, while our will, zealously dreaming.
We live in a ‘Godless world’, but our dreams would suggest otherwise.
The will of the world is awakening to find the word is with us.
We dreamt, we overcame. We are now strong enough to conquer.
Look how we use our words to heal; our wounded are ascending.
The word has been written, uttered and our will is now triumphant.
The will of the world stands full abreast with dazzling glorious might.
Beset with evocative words, we anticipate our inevitable bloody fight.
© Joe Pollitt, 2010
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