alexa

 

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

 

~ Arthur C. Clarke ~

 

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

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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flapper

 

“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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starsailor strange

 

“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”

 

~ Guy de Maupassant ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2018.

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embonpoint

 

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons.

But in your hands they tremble and fill with song like plump, white birds.”

 

~ Cecilia Llompart ~

 

Digitally enhanced and colourised image created from an analog black and white photo taken in November 1981.

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SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.

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IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

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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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