what tantalizing tapestry

 

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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intricacy

 

“Every day has a little bit of beauty and a little bit of chaos.”

 

~ Tanisha ~

 

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shroom

 

 

“People who experiment with psilocybin report it as

one of the most profound experiences they’ve had in their lives…”

 

~ Paul Expert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a single Psilocybin mushroom taken in October 2015.

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le poids

 

“The burden of the incommunicable.”

 

~ Thomas de Quincey ~

 

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points of light

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

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requital

 

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1982.

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UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

 

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

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LE PETIT POISSON

 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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PERHAPS

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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THE SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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NOTHING AT ALL

 

“Belief never was, is not and will never be truth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

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

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ONE THIN WIRE

 

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

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SLUGS

 

“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love.

We’re like slugs.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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PIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION

 

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

 

~ Marianne Moore ~

 

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

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TIMELESS TOMES

 

“So many books, so little time.”

 

~ Frank Zappa ~

 

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VORTEX

 

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

 

~ Ezra Pound ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fossilized mollusk from the author’s collection taken in October 2015.

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PLEUVOIR

 

 

“And then we talked of the rain, always back to the rain…”

 

~ Lou Reed ~

 

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FRAME OF REFERENCE

 

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

 

~ Ken Poirot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris in May 2013.

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DIMENSIONS

 

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Musee du Louvre in Paris in February 2007.

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LAST NIGHT ALIVE

 

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

 

~ Mae West ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 1991.

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