THE MOON STARES DOWN

 

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

 

~ Sandy Denny ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2021.

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KARMA

 

“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2017.

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TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.

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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

 

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.

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HAPPY

 

“What a wonderful life I’ve had!

   I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”

 

~ Colette ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in April 2017.

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JUNGLE

 

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

 

~ Peter De Vries ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.

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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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REDOLENCE

 

“Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now…”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2015.

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COILED

 

“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2019.

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TERPSICHORE

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

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PILL

 

“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.”

 

~ Grace Slick ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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IMAGES ON A EUROPEAN DAY – PART ONE

 

“Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.

They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.”

 

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in 1994.

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THE CUSP OF A DREAM

 

“Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.”

 

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

 

Digitally realised painting developed from an image first created in September 1976.

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THE SILENCE OF HER LIES

 

“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”

 

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.

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RIB DANCE

 

“Should I have brought earplugs?”

 

~ Kurt Nielsen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

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PISS POT PHILOSOPHY

 

“Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions:

the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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

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IN ALL THE SILENCE THAT IS SLEEP

 

“Silence is the speech of love.”

 

~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

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NO DIPLOMA

 

“Though the night was made for loving,

and the day returns too soon,

yet we’ll go no more a-roving

by the light of the moon.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art (William S. Burroughs in the Rue Gît le Coeur) taken in Paris in May 2018.

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BAINROW

 

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

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JUST A TRICKLE

 

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

 

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1989.

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