woman

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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WOMAN

 

“You had the power all along my dear.”

 

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

 

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

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RUBENESQUE

 

“That shadow of a shadow of your love,

that somehow contains the entire universe.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Musée du Louvre in Paris in June 2019.

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DELTA FLORA

 

“I admit that I am an old man.

I read my years in my mirror,

others read them on my brow.”

 

~ Petrarch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Flapping Shutters Ltd.

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.

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LES DEUX AMANTS

 

“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful,

because we have had to love in order to live;

love has been our survival.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Jules-Robert Auguste’s painting Deux Femmes Dénudées (1825-1830)  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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HOW MANY HANDS

 

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

 

~ Charles Spurgeon ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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LITTLE BOX OF HAPPY

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris taken in Paris in May 2012.

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PORTRAIT IN THE COLOUR OF MODESTY

 

“So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.”

 

~ Juvenal ~

 

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

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MATIN DANS LE BORDEL

 

“Use your life to wake yourself up.”

 

~ Pema Chodron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting taken in October 2018.

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LA FLAMME

 

“May I write words

more naked than flesh,

stronger than bone,

more resilient than sinew,

sensitive than nerve.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 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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NEW SKINS FOR OLD

 

“de nouvelles peaux pour les vieux…”

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2017 by I. Fontaine, used with permission.

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ENDLESS ARDOUR IN THE CITY OF LIGHT

 

“A great fire burns within me,

but no one stops to warm themselves at it,

and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”

 

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

 

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

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