SOFT LIES

 

“It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity,

although quite what is clear I cannot express.”

 

~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in May 2012 from a painting by G. Barth.

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GIRL WITH A GREEN BEAD NECKLACE

 

“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,

Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digital painting “Green Beads” created in May 2017.

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GIRL WITH A ROSE

 

“Love is like a rose.

When pressed between two lifetimes,

it will last forever.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in May 2015.

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THE DISTINCTION

 

“We have invented nothing new.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

(after seeing the cave paintings in Lascaux)

 

Original photo of modern cave art taken outside the Les Combarelles cave in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France in 1985.

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THE RUNNING MAN

 

“All I want in this life are three…
a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
a breath of opium,
and thee.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Wiesbaden, Germany in July 2005.

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L’EBENISTE PARISIEN

 

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly

ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

 

~ Friedrich von Schiller ~

 

 

Digital oil painting “L’ Atelier de Menuiserie” created from an original photo taken on the Rue du Cardinal Lemoine in Paris in December 2008.

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QUIXOTIC

“Hasta la muerte, todo es vida.”

“To death, everything is life.”

~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

 

 

Digital oil painting created from an original photo taken in the Netherlands in April 2007.

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AS IF THEY NEVER WERE

 

“If you want a picture of the future,

imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

~ George Orwell ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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HORTUS HAIKUS

 

“And after winter folweth grene May…”

~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2016.

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DREAMCANVAS

 

“Yes: I am a dreamer.

For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the lava formations on the Plage Nord in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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LA VÉZÈRE

 

“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Les Eyzies, France in June 2006.

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LES EYZIES

“The poet existed among the cave men;

he will exist among men of the atomic age,

for he is an inherent part of man.

Even religions have been born from the need for poetry,

which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry

that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.”

 

~ Saint-John Perse ~

Digitally altered image created from an original photo taken in Les Eyzies, France in June 2006.

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EQUOS

 

“Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when

we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name,

that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory,

when the mind first stood apart from the world,

still unaware that it was orphaned…”

 

~ Andrzej Stasiuk ~

 

Digital oil painting entitled “Equos” created from an original photo taken in the Dordogne Valley, France in June 2006.

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PASTORAL

 

 

…he sat down in the grass before the barrow to wait,

behind him, just a short five-minute walk through

the fields lay Stonehenge…

 

Digital oil painting created from a photo taken at the New Kings Barrows on Salisbury Plain in England in June 2007.

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GOURD

 

 

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

 

Original acrylic painting “The Gourd” painted by the author in 1970. Photo taken in April 2016.

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FLORET HAIKUS

 

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask?

A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

 

Digital painting created from a photo taken in Bavaria, Germany in May 2015.

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AU REVOIR

 

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

 

Digital painting “Absence” created in March 2016.

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PLEIADES

 
 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ
νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

The moon has set,

And the Pleiades.

In the mid of night,

Each hour comes and goes,

And I lie alone.

 

~ Sappho ~

 
 

Digitally enhanced image of Elihu Vedder’s (1836-1923) painting The Pleiades (1885). Original photo source: Wikipedia.

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GARGOYLE

 

 

“Why was I not made of stone like thee?”

~ Quasimodo ~

 

 

Digitally created oil painting created from an original photo taken at Notre Dame in Paris in May 2012.

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A MASTERPIECE

 

 

“Sunset’s the best time to take a stroll down Mouffetard, the ancient Via Mons Cetardus. The buildings along it are only two or three stories high. Many are crowned with conical dovecotes. Nowhere in Paris is the connection, the obscure kinship, between houses very close to each other more perceptible to the pedestrian than in this street…”

~ Jacques Yonnet ~

 

 

Digitally created oil paining from a photo originally taken in Paris in May 2012.

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