Essential labels

Somewhere in the back of my mind, were the wonders of the ‘perfume maker’s organ’ – like this magnificent and rare specimen at the Palazzo Mocenigo Museum in Venice.

Something a little different – a series of seven ‘photo-label-poems’.

These are a light hearted response to an invitation from my brother-in-law to take part in a seven day ‘nature image’ photography challenge.

I decided to combine my response with a small collection of old laboratory bottles loaned from a colleague at work, and with some [very] short poems responding to each image, in the form of a label…

 

(click on images below for larger versions)

.

ESSENTIA DE RES NATURA

1/7 Tincture of Gloaming a blushed burn lingering

2/7 Sun Condensed Uplands corrie cast uplifted uplit up

3/7: Gull Cocksure I can eat any-damn-thing & still fly the pants right off you

4/7 Calligraph of Trees still arm surfaces layering gold leaf tea

5/7: Hunker of Umbered Ochres high level low life storm squat squamous hard tough slow

6/7 Surface Tremolo still water air kissed appetite’s echo ripple fly fish

7/7 Tropic of Gorse earth sprung musk potent coconut sun lipped skin

.

.