Mirrors by Alex Heaton

Alex Heaton has seen life in both its beauty and its bizarreness and through 'Mirrors' he pours out his mind onto paper in a reservoir of poetic reflections which show the good, the bad and the ugly. Some of the images are bright and deliver us a sense of optimistic reassurance, but other images are darker and reflect the inescapable traps of futility and despair in which so many of us often find ourselves ensnared.Heaton's merit is his capacity for wide vision - his panoramic portrayal of the fragility of the human condition is made manifest in 'Mirrors'. But although subjectively critical, 'Mirrors' avoids being judgemental; it is essentially an open book.