polluted pearls

 

“Life is meaningless, but worth living,

provided you recognize it’s meaningless.”

 

~ Albert Camus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2023.

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the sin of the calf

 

“When they asked me what my religion was

I said that I was Non-Delusional.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.

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MY WOODEN FACE

 

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2016.

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THE SIN OF THE CALF

 

“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man

with no answers and no argument.” 

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.

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YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

 

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.

All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,

to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”

 

~ James Baldwin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the painting “La toilette d’Esther” by Théodore Chassériau taken in Paris in June 2019.

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SO MUCH OLDER THEN

 

“All diseases run into one, old age.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

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

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OPEN HEART

 

“Open your heart – open it wide;

someone is standing outside.”

 

~ Mary Engelbreit ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in November 2007.

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