Dianne Twombly

I am sitting on the balcony of my condo
overlooking the decay, sipping coffee,
staring out at a mountain of steel and plastic,

listening to a little sparrow
spill the tears of Édith Piaf,
perched on a crane,
breathing the city’s soot

thick with past and future progress

abandoned

on the front porch of the highway,
suspended like a Brian Eno bridge off the cliff—

the bluff

a view:

the cloud, the donkey,
the tree and the ghost

in disbelief

—at what remains.

It’s the art of Dianne Twombly, a Toronto-born, Hamilton-based photographer and visual artist. She creates surreal digital photographic collages featuring declining or liminal architecture.

“I know of a place on the edge of reality where abandoned and declining buildings rest in spacious dream-like landscapes that speak of the human connection to lost places.”

—Dianne Twombly