Polaroids: Skeleton Girl
[Camera: Polaroid SX70/600 – impossible project bw film]
Weary bones
Objectified – instant
Mutual gratification
Mostly Polaroids – Dougie Kennedy
Coin-Operated – Arcade Machines, Glasgow
[Chinatown, Cowcaddens]
These photos were taken in the Chinatown Mall, Glasgow.
Four accompanying haiku document my early sexual experiences.
Fifty pence per play
Clammy hands on warm joysticks
While button flicking
Feeling the pressure
Friends watching over shoulder
Only one life left
Hammering controls
A new challenger enters
Knock out! – play again?
The countdown begins
Insert coins to continue
Lost it – GAME OVER
Polaroids: ABANDONED // BROKEN // WASTE OIL
[Camera: Polaroid Impulse Portrait – impossible project 600 colour film]
E.U. exit plan
is dystopian future –
you can smoke in pubs
no more immigrants
close down the borders – nation
of jobless racists
Britain votes to leave
manufacturing is dead
oil is now worthless