SILENT MOVIES

 

“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on

from the images because the images are so strong.”

 

~ Monica Bellucci ~

 

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

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PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov

 

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

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SLUG SONGS

 

“There are three things in the world

that he held in the smallest esteem –

slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.”

 

~ P. G. Wodehouse ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from two photos taken in Autumn 2010.

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UNREALITY

 

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

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

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MARBLE POSE

 

“How like herrings and onions our vices are

in the morning after we have committed them.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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

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PORTRAIT

 

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling

is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digital painting created in November 2020.

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AN ANONYMOUS PROPOSITION

 

“Rest in reason. Move in Passion.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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

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NO BOUNDARIES

 

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”

 

~ Malcolm De Chazal ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a Cro-Magnon woman taken at the Lascaux III Exhibition in Paris in May 2015.

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INCUBUS

 

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

 

~ John Updike ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Ymir taken in October 2020. (YMIR © Ray Harryhausen).

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CHOCOLATE CREATURES

 

“Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless.”

 

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage ~

 

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

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