A DEMON THAT DEVOURED

“The creative person is overpowered,

captive of and driven by a demon…”

~ Carl Jung ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting taken in Paris in June 2018.

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INCUBUS

 

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

 

~ John Updike ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Ymir taken in October 2020. (YMIR © Ray Harryhausen).

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BEHIND HER SMILE

 

“Nothingness not being nothing,

nothingness being emptiness.”

 

~ Isabelle Adjani ~

 

 

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

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A THOUSAND DEATHS AGAIN

 

“I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears

with as much ease as which we close our eyes.”

 

~ Richard Steele ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture called “Monster” by Léopold Chauveau taken in Paris in June 2019.

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BE YOU GONE

 

“Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure,

can also agonize with pain.”

 

~ Horace Mann ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Malachite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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