le hurlement

 

“Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.”

 

~ John Selden ~

 

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

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gramophone

 

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end 

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

 

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

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

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might have made a difference

 

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

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SANDS

 

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2008.

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DESPITE IT ALL

 

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

 

~ William Wallace ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2005.

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JUST BEGINNING

 

“The end of laughter and soft lies,

the end of nights we tried to die,

this is the end.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Les grottes de Cougnac in France in June 2006.

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SING ELECTRIC

 

“O I say these are not the parts and poems

of the body only, but of the soul…”

 

~ Walt Whitman ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of the negative of a ruined Polaroid photo taken in late 1967.

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MOONSTONE MAGIC

 

“The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a lunar achondrite meteorite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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ECHOES

 

“Consciousness is a being

the nature of which

is to be conscious of

the nothingness of its being.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Dordogne region of France in June 1985.

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EMPTY HEART

 

“Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.“

 

~ Ovid ~

 

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

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ECHO

 

“Poetry is an echo,

asking a shadow to dance.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photograph taken in France in April 2017.

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