words like clay

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a newly excavated 1800 year old Roman burial urn taken in July 1987.

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where the time goes

 

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

 

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

 

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

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stop to smell the roses

 

“And in the end, the love you take,

   is equal to the love you make…”

 

~ Paul McCartney ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.

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A CHILD’S MIND IS LIKE CLAY

 

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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

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WORDS LIKE CLAY

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a newly excavated 1800 year old Roman burial urn taken in July 1987.

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MATTER DANCE

 

“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

 

~ Bill Hicks ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of a cave in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France in June 2006.

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WINDOW OF IMAGINATION

 

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

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VENUS EXPOSED

 

“Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original scanned 35mm slide taken in late 1998. From the author’s private archives.

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STOP TO SMELL THE ROSES

 

“And in the end, the love you take,

is equal to the love you make…”

 

~ Paul McCartney ~

 

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

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A CHILD’S MIND IS LIKE CLAY

 

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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

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WORDS LIKE CLAY

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman burial urn taken in Mainz, Germany in July 1987.

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RÊVE DU SCULPTEUR

 

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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

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THE BEST WORK OF ART

 

“The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter,

nor the harp played upon by the musician.

It is the clay modeling itself.”

 

~ E. S. Russell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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