Domination Stories

“Provocature” Read the title below the canvas. Illuminated expertly, the work filled the darkened corner of the room. She studied the crescents, the curves, and lines of effervescing light on the dark, almost morbid background, Slowly the painting began to come alive before her, as if it was moving to welcome her approach. A little bewildered she let the scene play on her mind for a time – and then – realisation. The outl...

By the time Sunday arrived I was feeling quite tired and decided to spend the day quietly in my hotel room. Wondering if I should stay in Auckland another night or somewhere else, the thought of going home and back into reality was dreary one - wishing I could live my life like this constantly. I was thinking Hamilton or Rotorua and I’m not sure who messaged who first but then Tauranga came into the equation. After the re...

I was dressed as I usually was for one of those terrible zoom meetings, a half decent shirt on the top track pants on the bottom no shoes on. I had given in to corporate protocol to the slightest degree, by shaving, and attempting to put my hair in such a state that I wouldn’t look horrific on camera. But after three weeks of lockdown, I was done, and so was everybody else in my team. This was one of those meetings I coul...