The Private Moon series is a huge body of work that looks a indoor and outdoor insulations, that illuminate the surroundings. The work its self a a visual poem, explaining the idea of and thoughts of Chesterton a writer who explained the idea that there is no personal faith, in the same way each person can not have their own private sun or moon to them self's.
The visual poem tells a story of a man that met the moon her self, and stayed with her for the rest of his life. Each image that you see in its self is another section of the story.
In the start the moon was hiding from the sun, hidden away in a tunnel, she came to a man house and stayed in his loft, he cared for her and covered her with blankets.
"Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right.
Therefore each picture is accompanied by my own verse" - Leonid Tishkov.
The work has been accompanied by seven Haiku's short Japanese poems that in a way sum up the work. Haiku's wirrten by Leong Liew Geok 3 October 2008
Moon at window sill,
Smiling crescent parked outside,
Unwilling to budge
On flat roof with me
Silent witness of lit rooms:
Unknown company
Bent over with you
Piggyback-rider,
to gauge—Water below bridge!
My yoke of white jade,
Sole passenger to ferry
Wherever I row
Your Brightness on sled
I lug across waves of snow.
Why can’t You float home?
At this opening
You’ll wait, light at tunnel’s end,
Anticipating
I’ll come to take you
Home to your usual table ….
Here—eat these apples!
Stuck on snowy roof
You’re prostrate, an empty stage
I’ll shovel upright
You’re there, attic moon,
Before I end an antique
Trip to count cobwebs
Side by side we lie—
Keep your whole self covered, else
I won’t get to sleep!
