Celeste Foundation - Little Celeste

Nicole Page-Smith, Photographs, 

Little Celeste series, 2013

A Golden Cat

As I walked to my office one day and stopped 

by the flax bushes near the curve of the road

to look at the view of the city and Northeast Valley

and the amber poplars with the light shining through

them,

and the autumn trees turning where turn still means

decay,

the souring of the once freshly foaming season,

a golden cat came out of the bushes, wove

around my feet, said, Own me, Own me, I am golden.

Scorched flax, leaves, berries on fire, none

come so gracefully to you; it is I

who am weaving the golden season.

I hurried on thinking perhaps I dreamed it.

Janet Frame

In the Dark Woods

Nicole Page-Smith, In the Dark Woods series, 2013

The Dark Woods

Nicole Page-Smith, In the Dark Woods, 2013

The Dark Woods

In the dark woods, I found a prince. He was a very handsome prince and of a steadfast nature. He was looking for a princess but had to travel the world to find her. He travelled up down an down dale, only to discover a dark forest. He was guided by some ugly trolls to try and divert his path from the castle. He did not realize their evil tricks. There were several tests he had to perform to try and find her. We are talking about a very special princess. One test was to try and find the right path to her door. The other test was to divert the evil people on her island. They thought they had got away with being evil and taking the rubies from her crown but God had other ideas and punishes all evil people for being evil. There were even movies made about him but the evil people were too stupid to care. God does not need to dumb down evil people especially, they do it to themselves. What were they thinking? Unfortunately they were but not about the handsome prince or the princess. Just like there are those who love and those who hate. Through the dark woods the prince rode his steed. He tried to communicate that there were trolls in the woods and she was frightened. She had heard them in the evenings sometimes but thought they were the native animals looking for food. So, he tried to communicate with God that this was the princess for him and that he wanted to marry her. To try and take her to a better place. There must be an evil spell cast on the woods by the evil trolls that needs to be lifted. God lift the evil smell.