SHE WAITED FOR HIM

 

“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”

 

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon ~

 

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

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YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

 

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.

All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,

to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”

 

~ James Baldwin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the painting “La toilette d’Esther” by Théodore Chassériau taken in Paris in June 2019.

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A SHY NOD AND A QUICK WINK

 

“A nod is as good as a wink.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the sculpture “Masque d’Anna Foucart” by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux taken in Paris in June 2019.

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MONSTRE

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco de Goya y Lucientes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the sculpture “Monstre” by Léopold Chauveau taken in Paris in June 2019.

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MEDUSA

 

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

 

~ Mason Cooley ~

 

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

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SOLARIZED

 

“I pressed her thigh and death smiled.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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

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PRETENCE

 

“Most people love you for who you pretend to be…

To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.

You get to love your pretence…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Matsch und Pfütze Foto Service GmbH.

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EVENING STAR

 

“Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;

we know not what we do,

and while we’re young we have the right

to live and love like gods.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2007.

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BLABBERWOCKY

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a chondrite meteorite found in Morocco in 2019 taken in February 2020.

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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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