“The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Posts Tagged With: History
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bastille, Books, Bookshelves, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elysium, Future, Here, History, Hooks, Museum, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Sanctuary, Skeletons, Solitude, There, Tomes
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AFTERLIFE
“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.
But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.
We are programmed to betray.”
~ Michael Ignatieff ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Archaeology, Bones, Cartons, Catalogued, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eternity, Graves, Heaven, Hell, History, Illustrated, Life, Measured, Memories, Numbered, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Reward, Shelves, Skeletons, Storeroom, Studied, Time
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BEFORE THE DOOM
“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Book, Broomstick, Buffalo, Digital Imagery, Doom, Fakir, Ground, Heart, History, Imagination, Leaf, Life, Love, Paris, Past, Photography, Pie, Plain, Poetry, Street Art, Wind, Words
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REVOLUTION IS FOREVER
“True revolution comes from true revulsion;
when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman sculpture of a Celtic warrior prisoner taken in January 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Authority, Change, Commitment, Corrupt, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dignity, Equality, Forever, Future, Hated, Heart, History, Human Rights, Individuals, Inequality, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protection, Purge, Revolution, Sanctity, Streets, Strong, Vigilance
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AGELESS AM I
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Cave Painters, Civilization, Colonialism, Cruelty, Dark Ages, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egypt, Environment, Experiment, First Farmers, Future, Greed, Greeks, History, Ignorance, Industrial Revolution, Innocent, Life, Medieval Society, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Romans, Sumeria, The Enlightenment, Time, War
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EMPIRES
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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MAMMOTH STEAKS
“Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred;
a flint will break upon a feather bed.”
~ John Cleveland ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Debitage, Digital Imagery, Flint, Game, History, Knapping, Mammoth, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Point, Steaks, Survival, Technology, Time
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THEM THAT’S GOT SHALL HAVE
“Behind every great fortune is a crime.”
~ Honore de Balzac ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aristocracy, Beggar's Bowl, Blade, Bovine Bitch, Dandy, Death, Digital Imagery, Finery, Grim Reaper, Guillotine, History, Inequality, Laugh, Life, Money, Noses, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pittance, Poetry, Pseudo-Pomp, Riches, Severed Head, Smile, Sneer
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OTHER WORLDS
“There are times when we stop, we sit still.
We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
~ James Carroll ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fantasy, Fight, Future, History, Imagination, Lies, Memories, Normal, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revolution, Time, Tomorrow, Truth, Twisted, Warped, Worlds
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CAPITALISM MUST DIE
“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.”
~ Joseph Stalin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Asthma, Avarice, Capitalism, Capitalist Pig, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fat Ass, Future, Greed, History, Lungs, Orange, Pension, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Shit Stained, Thighs, Weasel Eyes
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