BEAUTIFULLY BRALESS

 

“Why waste your time burning flags,

when burning bras is a much better pastime.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken at a flea market in Paris in September 2017.

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GAMAHUCHE

 

“The tragedy of sexual intercourse is

the perpetual virginity of the soul.”

 

~ William B. Yeats ~

 

Digital painting “Glisten” created in September 2017 from an original concept first visualized in 2001.

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SEX

 

“Writing is like making love.

Don’t worry about the orgasm,

just concentrate on the process.”

 

~ Isabel Allende ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in the Rue Aubury Le Boucher in Paris in August 2015.

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UNE NUIT À PARIS

 

“Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2015.

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FLOW

 

“France lost a great novel last night.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

…after sleeping with his mistress…

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2000.

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MAMELON

 

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”

 

~ Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ~

 

Digital image “Mamelon” created in June 2017.

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THE GIRL IN MY ROOM

 

“My soul is so knit to yours that it is

but a divided life I live without you.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

Digital painting “Citrus” created in May 2017.

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MINIMALLY RUBENESQUE

 

“We rehearse for the big death

through the little death of orgasm,

through erotic living.

Death as transfiguration.”

 

~ Peter Redgrove ~

 

Digital image “Minimally Rubenesque” created in May 2017.

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EYE OF THE STORM

 

“There is peace even in the storm.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digital image “Storm’s Eye” created in May 2017.

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CUISSE DE LA NYMPHE SUSCITÉE

 

“Eros seizes and shakes my very soul
like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digital image “The Nymph’s Thighs” created in April 2017.

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PASSIONATE LANDSCAPE

 

“When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced and tinted sketch “Passion Rising” created in March 2017.

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THESE PLEASURES

 

“The only thing we never get enough of is love;

and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original cropped photo taken sometime in 2014.

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A TIME WITHOUT HIM

 

In French, you don’t really say “I miss you,” 

you say “Tu me manque” which means

“You are missing from me.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2017.

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OBSESSED

 

“You’re no longer where you were,

But you’re everywhere where I am…”

“Tu n’es plus là où tu étais,

mais tu es partout là où je suis…”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digital painting “The Harbour” created in March 2017.

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L’ÉTREINTE

 

“Touch has a memory.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 2012.

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NOT BAD ENOUGH

 

“My sexual preference is often.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digital painting “Pertinence” created in March 2017. Thanks to the model’s poignant and pertinent participation.

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ONE LONG BEAUTIFUL NIGHT

 

“Words make love with one another.”

 

~ Andre Breton ~

 

Digital image “Violet” created in March 2017 from an original concept first realised in 1976.

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TERRAIN

 

“My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digital image “Figure With Raised Arm” created in February 2017.

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MINOU

 

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature

and embroidered by imagination.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Illustration “Minou” created in February 2017.

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HER NIGHT’S PURPLE PASSION

 

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

 

~ Jean de la Fontaine ~

 

Digital image “La Passion” created in February 2017.

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