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CEMETERIES
Featuring: Highgate, North London;
Brompton, South London; Leigh-on-Sea, Essex; Holywell,
Oxford; Abney Park, North London; Montparnasse, Paris;
Pere Lachaise, Paris; Military Cemetery, South Carolina;
St Louis 1, New Orleans.
Many more to follow...
Self-portrait, Liverpool 1996
A saunter around Highgate Cemetery,
North London...
Eastside...
There are thousands of children buried
at Highgate. Many died of overwork, and rickets caused
by lack of sunshine.
Archangel Michael sans sword
Many of the
graves contain coffins piled on top of one another
Weird Highgate child
One of the
East side's more famous memorials...also one of its
ugliest if you ask me. I appear to have been so aesthetically
traumatised that whilst taking the picture, I began
to keel over sideways... ;)
Now to the
West side. It houses the remains of Radclyffe Hall,
Lizzie Siddal (the Pre-Raphaelite muse), Michael Faraday
and many others. It's a fabulous necropolis. There are
some more pictures of this part of the cemetery decorating
my 'Forthcoming Works' section.
Lebanon Circle, Westside
Highgate Catacombs
Now for some
more provincial tombs. This one belongs to Mary Ellis,
who according to the inscription (see below) died in
1609, aged 119. The tomb was used to sharpen the cutlasses
of local sailors, and is thus known as 'the cutlass
stone'. It's in the cemetery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
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And another headstone from Leigh-on-Sea...
Me snapped in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford...
And again...
Below, part of Abney
Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington, North London. Most of it
is much prettier than this, but the idea of spray-painting
an epithaph intrigued me.
One of London's finest cemeteries other
than Highgate is Brompton, near Baron's Court:
Three 'vampires'
lived in the catacombs here (see background) for years, until
they were evicted.
Below: Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris...
Note horribly apt
effect that weathering has had on the carved portrait above...
And more Montparnasse.
Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are here, and Jean Cocteau (I
seem to recall) and Abelard and Heloise.
Now to Pere Lachaise,
and Jim Morrison's grave. It's always surrounded by stoned
people, gendarmes & graffiti
(Apparently I was having an art attack
in this shot. It isn't actually on a slope)
The picture below was taken in South Carolina
during a roadtrip. I just love its moodiness, and the tumbledown
barn in the background of the clipped military cemetery like
a gap of decay in a perfect fake smile. I can still smell
the tobacco and the skunk (animal variety) when I look at
this...
Below: New Orleans. I'm ashamed to say
that I can't remember which cemetery the two images below
were taken in. Aieee!
Well, OK, I may have photoshopped the sky
a little in the picture below. Me and the tomb of one Henri
Pottier:
I just hate white
skies. We get enough of them in Europe...
'Now the great London
night filled with departed Souls from St. Louis cemetery number
one. Madame Marie Laveau casts her juju sprinkle like confetti,
and holds hands with the Female Baronz of Highgate cimitière,
the initiation of the wrought-iron Gateway. Powerhubs and
leynexi playing its energy on successive receptives.'
- Louis, in Magick
in the West End
Now to St Louis 1,
at the heart of New Orleans:
Colourful modern
grave
Below: family tomb
of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen. Crosses and knocks on the tomb
are supposed to help grant requests
And another from
St Louis 1:
More cemeteries to follow soon...
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