apples and snakes

 

“I should have no use for a paradise in which

I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”

 

~ Jean Rostand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.

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les mensonges

 

“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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LES MENSONGES

 

“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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APPLES AND SNAKES

 

“I should have no use for a paradise in which

I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”

 

~ Jean Rostand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a model for a Rosenthal porcelain figure “Die Hockende” sculpted by Fritz Klimsch in 1935, taken in October 2018.

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THAT WHICH IS FORBIDDEN

 

 

“We always long for the forbidden things,

and desire what is denied us.”

 

~ Francois Rabelais ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

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THE DEATH-LIKE AGONY OF DESIRE

 

“Secrecy is the original sin.

The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden.

The basic crime against love.”

 

~ Timothy Leary ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Berlin January 2018.

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PARADISE

 

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Bavaria in June 2014.

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