SERPENTINE EYES

 

“I will have my serpent’s tongue,

my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice.

I will overcome the tradition of silence.”  

 

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.

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QUICK SKETCH

 

“I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague,

voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced pixeleen image modeled in April 2001 and created in April 2020.

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LET US BE LOVERS TOGETHER

 

“Now you are a broken seal,

a scarlet stain upon the earth.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of street art on the Berlin Wall taken in January 2018.

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ELECTRIK WET

 

“Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee;

So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered me.”

 

~ Thomas Kyd ~

 

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

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NENSONSE

 

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced and coloured image created from a scan of a sketch purchased at Parisian flea market in May 2018.

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PASSION

 

“Those who live passionately teach us how to love.

Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”

 

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

 

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

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THE BEAST WITH TWO HEADS

 

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Ficks & Fertig Enterprises.

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LA CHAMBRE ROUGE

 

“Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,

Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”  

 

~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

 

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

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A PILLAR OF SOCIETY

 

“And so the wolf lay with the lamb.”

 

~ Nenia Campbell ~

 

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

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BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

 

“We don’t see things as they are, 

we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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

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MEDARD AT MIDNIGHT

 

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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CRYSTALLINE

 

“Faith is under the left nipple.”

 

~ Martin Luther~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by colour yourself taken in Paris in December 2019.

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PUSSOETRY

 

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write.

The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally generated painting created in November 2019.

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GWYNNETH

 

“Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.”

 

~ Gary Numan

 

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

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ANDROGYNE

 

“An androgynous mind was not a male mind.

It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience,

including the invisible lives of women.”

 

~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ~

 

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

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BARÏRÏTU

 

“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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

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JANIE

 

“To love and win is the best thing;

to love and lose, the next best.”

 

~ William Thackeray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original scan of a linoleum print (ca. 1971) by an unknown artist scanned in October 2019.

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LEFT BEHIND

 

“When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

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

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UNWRAPS THE COBWEBS

 

“Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in a Paris fleamarket in June 2019.

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THE GIFT

 

“There are objects that need names.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy,

bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.”

 

~ Man Ray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Man Ray’s Cadeau (Edition 1974 number 1214 / 5000) taken in October 2019. This object is from the author’s personal collection.

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