ILLUSION

 

“…and romeo was left crooning to an empty balcony…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of a statue of Julia (Juliet) taken in Munich, Germany in June 2014.

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BY NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

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DAUGHTER OF THE MOON

 

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

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ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE

 

“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in November 2020.

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DEATH AND PASSION

 

“Death is inevitable, passion is eternal.”

 

~ Allison van Diepen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the sculpture “Les Nubiens” by Ernest Barrias (1894) taken in Paris in June 2019.

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REVOLUTION NOW!

 

“How can I rise if you don’t fall?”

 

~ Robert Wyatt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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JANIE

 

“To love and win is the best thing;

to love and lose, the next best.”

 

~ William Thackeray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original scan of a linoleum print (ca. 1971) by an unknown artist scanned in October 2019.

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PASSIONATE DIMENSIONS

 

“Our passions are the true phoenixes;

when the old one is burnt out,

a new one rises from its ashes.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a portrait of an unknown woman taken in Paris in May 2018.

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OCTOPUS ARMS

 

“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea,

the octopus dreams of me.”

 

~ N. Scott Momaday ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the entrance to the Maison des Océans in Paris – Institut océanographique taken in Paris in September 2017.

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FUCKADUCK BLUES

 

“Nonsense is to sense,

as shade to light;

it heightens effect.”

 

~ Frederick Saunders ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken with an analog camera in Virginia Beach, Virginia in April 1990.

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