A poetic reading of Jessica King's photographs by Lloyd Godman

intervention of play

In the soft dough of childhood
and sticky moulding of puberty
lie potentially paralysing ingredients
like a yeast it rises with heat and sets the mix
now solid the subversion manifests in the seriousness of codified life and living
subterfuges the self-validation of  an inner creative spirit
 imprisons the primeval impulse of play
 ingredients that can set the dough like concrete
 and anesthetise the art of plastic thought
 
playfulness intervenes in the form of white stuff
seriousness falls backward
our daily bread is a licence to once again play