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John Matthew Riva

This is a place where ideas flow freely, a space where one can explore the otherwise quiet inner thoughts normally one only shares with oneself - a station of ideas with tracks to the unknown and beyond...

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courtney love in BLK & WHT

a raw and candid view of the infamous love at the ONE model management party at Hiro last night.
Posted from NY
 

my nieces

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alfredo e bea : : love and old friends

Posted from NY
 

andy over broadway

Posted from NY
 

death, sex, and other things

Posted from New York, NY
 

a slice of my commute

Posted from New York, NY
 

just an impression

Silence despite sound
Stillness in motion.

Cold confronts warmth
Cloud as breath.

Force upon the gentle
A blanket of spears.

Limbs twist and bow
Crying in the night.

Revealing new forms
In soft violence.

Posted from New York, NY
 

striking lines : : a woman's journey

against the grain
wheels roll
over damaged black
tarmac
frozen in motion
waiting
in quiet frustration

heels leed legs
feels slow
cracking as they hit
timing
from green to flashing
striking lines
lost in a rhythm

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how a memory fades

how a memory fades...

that after taste, the lingering of an impression and its soft focus, in the degradation of a moment truth is revealed.

the birth of a memory as the senses are woven together to be stored in a vessel for remembrance.

an image, prepared to accept new elements, as colour takes on a kind of aroma one can taste, the atmosphere is infused with the silence of a distant echo, motion implied by gesture, and time irrelevant, it is warm here and familiar, a bridge to the past.

all this richness stands ready and willing, to be accessed by triggers, markers we make or learn or stumble upon, ready to breath again, as it does now...

the red cloak sings over emerald water, thick like fresh milk, light trying to deny the existence of shadows, those Gondoliers and their familiar exchange... an old friend one sees at a glance in a habitual embrace

this welcome haze lifts...

how a memory fades.

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A narrow focus

(Venice a city that's unsettlingly familiar)

In direct opposition to its chaotic meandering pathways, scattered at random, a system without a formula of open piazzas and twisting gestures, scrambling under porticos and over hump backed brigdes of various heights and sizes, is a rigid but logical grid of canals, an efficient lattice work of waterways that give order to the ebb and flow.

Heading somewhere, somehow, one turns a corner, and a distraction becomes the meaning of the journey, a space between, and the walls, they open up, into corridors of light... pillars born of order and disorder, of logic and the illogical, holding up the rafters of our loftiest dreams... a view with a narrow focus.

 
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