X-ray Specs: The Prescience of Poly Styrene

I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
Then fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow

And watched the world turn
Day-glo you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know

I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
Then peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road

I drove my polypropolene car
On wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To have a rubber bun.


I named this blog after a Poly Styrene song because I love her and find her inspirational; for her song's concern for an over stressed planet; for its relationship to my current photography project "Spirits in the Material World." It also makes me think of the moment that photography moved from black and white into color, and from being considered a recording mechanism to an art form. And of course there would be no photographic images without light: day-glo, neon, strobic, ambient or otherwise. Plus its cool she just invented a word like day-glo!