Deeds, not Words in the wind
EXHIBITION IN TRIBUTE TO RAPHAEL
12th - 14th of April 2019
The exhibition showcased Rapha’s way : his music, social engagement, friendship networks and “connections” with his world within.
PANELS OF THE EXHIBITION
WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS
CALAIS
Calais, Calais, Calais,
Is this a sigh humanity’s gone away?
Calais, Calais, Calais,
So many people from so far away
Calais, Calais, Calais,
All we can do is pray
That tomorrow may prove a brighter day
I hear cries, yet I hear laughter
Is there a better world in the hereafter?
So many journeys have come to an end
In this desolate place at lands’ end
And the sea begins, a sea of despair
And my broken laughter I cannot repair….
OUT OF THE BOX
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
The canvas begins with infinite possibilities,
Until you point one down and determine reality.
Most believe you begin with a frame,
But who’s to define how far stretches the game?
Ideas are the seeds of the world,
Expanding through time and space
They never rest and always grow in fame,
Expanding for eternity,
No walls can stop them, yet,
Sometimes they lose form…
When an actor’s art extends beyond the stage
He can finally breathe free, breathe free of the cage.
The boundaries of the stage are nothing but illusion,
Defining space to avoid intrusion.
What usually happens is a state of confusion
Where people mix up truth and illusion.
Frame, Frame, Frame the mind
All parts of the system strictly defined
Coz, when in isolation,
You cannot see the greater picture
And what it means for thee.
Coz, on a wheel tending the machinery,
No idea where the energy flows over finally.
Compartmentalisation of space, mind and time.
You may as well turn off the light,
Stop its shine,
Stop your thoughts,
Read the nought.
God gives for both,
The black is by design.
Enable to see
what I struggle to be.
Caught in the detail,
Not understanding
That the frame is there,
for getting you into attraction.
INHABITING NATURE
PLANT A SEED FOR A FUTURE BLOSSOM
BODY SOUL AND MIND:
PEOPLE AS FELLOW BEINGS
COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER FUTURE
Can you grow, can you sow
Can you tend for your own
Or do you need Tesco
Deciding which seeds are grown
With no intendancies we will
Fear for tomorrow
How will we feed and shelter our sorrow
In a world of plenty but
Of nothing at all
All one can do is hear nature’s call
You can hear her weeping across the sea
Ho my sons what has happened to thy
None growing but one is how for you
Have come
Leaning Tesco deciding what we will become.
TESCO
RAPHA’S JOURNEY
FOREIGN FICTION
Travelled far and wide
On an intercontinental mission,
Observing cultural transmission
Through language and its diction.
Wandered so long in a foreign land,
No longer recognising one nation as my
stand.
Yet, some find it hard to understand
What a cock may be doing in a desert
sand.
Remember patience, be wise,
As misunderstandings may arise,
For when the sun sets in one place,
In another it will rise.
And who will be there to tell you: “my time
is night!” ?
It is night that he rides?
Yet I thought that it was daylight!
Here I listen to a foreign tongue,
Speaking words who’s meaning to me is
none,
Otherwise idle descriptions
Of a tale not my own,
Suggesting what we wouldn’t,
Back at home.
Symbols and meanings begin to appear,
What exactly is not yet clear!
MUSIC FOR ALL
BUILDING FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS
through music
DEEDS NOT WORDS IN THE WIND
ACTIONS ECHOING THROUGH TIME
People get stuck in certain frames of mind.
They need to classify themselves and others in categories whether communist, capitalist, black, white, rich and poor.
Once a mindset is in place, it is difficult to get over it, and people tend to stick to their view no matter what.
Defining oneself and others in certain “groups” creates intolerance, misunderstandings, ignorance and lack of communication. It creates the difference between “US” and “THEM”.
A typical example of this is Religion.
What matters is not how one lives his life, but, what one says about his beliefs. A person living with Christian values without calling himself a Christian, is not a Christian, and, as such, some will say that he will not go to heaven…
But, if someone lives his life according to the precepts without considering himself one, how does not that apply?
And so, it becomes all about what people say they are,
That’s what becomes important.
Not the actions which one takes through those words and thoughts.
So, many spend their days criticising capitalism but, at the end of the day, go to MC, drink coke and buy Nike…
It is not a matter of words in the wind, but a matter of actions echoing through time….
STOPPING NEGATIVE INTENTIONS
FEEDING A POSITIVE FUTURE
RESIST
The People Republic of Stokes Croft Agenda