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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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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THE OTHER DAY DOWN IN HELL

 

“We are only born once – twice is not allowed –

and it is necessary that we shall be no more,

for all eternity…”

 

~ Epicurus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1983.

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

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

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IGNIS FATUUS

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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

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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris taken in June 2019.

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ALWAYS THERE

 

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind

to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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

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LIONEL IN THE DAN’S DEN

 

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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PRIVATE HELL

 

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

 

~ Seneca ~

 

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

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ONE BREAST BARED

 

“Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,

and sweet reluctant amorous delay.”

 

~ John Milton ~

 

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

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