TOUCH THE PAST

 

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows,

man is an invention of recent date.

And one perhaps nearing its end.”

 

~ Michel Foucault ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1988.

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ALONE

 

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.” 

 

~ Yul Brynner ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 1981.

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ON

 

“But I just had to look having read the book,

I’d love to turn you on…”

 

~ John Winston Lennon ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in June 2016.

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WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM

 

“Lost time is never found again.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.

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LOOK BACK IN ANGER

 

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

 

~ Haruki Murakami ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

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THE LAST OF MY KIND

 

“Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish;

selfishness makes people selfish.”

 

~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~

 

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

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SACRIFICED

 

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw

on a bank where they have no account.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from three original photos taken between May and July 1987.

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SARAH

 

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

 

~ William James ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting, circa the mid 1940’s, by my Father’s Mother, taken in December 2019.

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LAYERS LAID DOWN

 

“Life is like an onion.

You peel it off one layer at a time,

and sometimes you weep.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of geological and archaeological layers taken in August 1986.

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SIX WAS NINE

 

“It’s what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?

There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.”

 

~ D.R. Hedge ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2014.

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