The softly dying summer

Zenit E / Takumar Asahi Super 50mm 1.4 / Jupiter 9 85mm f2 / M42 / Ilford Pan 400
Moscow August 2020
 

She wants dinosaurs.

Moscow feels open again. And, it‘s Summer. Winter feels closed here anyway.

Like a long wait for something desperately trying to happen. You have faith that one will pass and the other will take its place. But your faith has no point. Change will always come.

The dead cars in the neighbourhood become interesting in Summer. The snow and frost is gone and I can spy their strange abandoned contents. It has become a small obsession.

The wee one‘s eye played up. It wouldn‘t open for the doctor. There were screams. Screams calmed by bribery. So, a trip to the kiosk. All the dolls went unnoticed. More cars are needed for the collection.

At least it‘s not a dinosaur. I am so bored of the dinosaurs. They are dead. Forgotten things from the past. When the doctor’s salve needs to go on there are more screams and bribery.

And meanwhile people do what people do. As it should be.

Live for we are a long time dead. Like those dinosaurs.

Maybe some future kid plays obsessively with plastic versions of us in the ever changing dystopia.

Zenit E / Asahi Super Takumar 50mm 1.4 / Fomapan 400 / Fujifilm Superia 400
Moscow July 2020.