“We are always the same age inside.”
~ Gertrude Stein ~
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the final act
“I knew if I waited around long enough
something like this would happen.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
(epitaph)
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fantômes
“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”
~ John Malkovich ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cheeks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Eyes, Faces, Friends, Future, Ghosts, Hissing, Letters, Life, Memories, Mirror, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering
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page three
“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
~ James Thurber ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cheese, Cloak, Crotch, Digital Imagery, Egg, Eyes, Fantasies, Fingers, Invisibility, Invisible Ink, Life, Memories, Mind, Mineral, Mirror, Neck, Page, Perspective, Petticoat, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Silence, Sky, Smoke, Soundtrack, Time, Turntable, | Tags: Book
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through the looking glass
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”
~ Lewis Carroll ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alice, Digital Imagery, Distortions, Inaccuracies, Looking Glass, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Truth
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les pieds du pèlerin
“You never conquer a mountain.
You just stand on the top a few moments.
Then the wind blows your footprints away.”
~ Arlene Blum ~
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SECOND CHANCE
“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,
ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”
~ Memphis Slim ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Insight, Life, Luck, Mirror, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Second Chance, Self-Analysis, Vision
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LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES
“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”
~ Anonymous ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Appetite, Breath, Curtain, Death, Devices, Digital Imagery, Hunger, Knots, Life, Mid-life Crisis, Mirror, Nectar, Old Man, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Smile, Steam, Taste, Water
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THE FINAL ACT
“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
(epitaph)
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BITS AND SNIPPETS
“A man’s interest in the world is only
an overflow from his interest in himself.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bull, Crete, Dancer, Digital Imagery, Horns, Knossos, Leaper, Matador, Mirror, Nothing, Overflowing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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UN VIEIL HOMME
“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.”
~ Leon Trotsky ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bearded, Countenance, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Father, Future, Life, Memories, Mirror, Old Man, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Road, Silver Haired, Time, Visage, Weary, Weathered
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MEDUSA
“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”
~ Mason Cooley ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Hate, Head, Hiss, Lips, Medusa, Memories, Minacious, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Satyr, Sensuality, Serpents, Sex, Shadows, Slobber, Smile, Snakes, Stone, Thigh, Vitriol
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KNOW MYSELF
“Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world.
Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cell, Changes, Colour, Consciousness, Creature, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fossilization, Future, Hands, Imagination, Know, Life, Memories, Mirror, Old, Palette, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Spotted, Time, Wrinkled
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LOST IN THOUGHT
“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.”
~ Sanober Khan ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Au Naturel, Beauty, Blind, Breasts, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Eyes, Future, Heart, Imagination, Inner Spirit, Life, Love, Memories, Mirror, Paris, Passion, Past, Pauper, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Resignation, Self-Doubt, Sex, Sweat, Thighs, Thoughts, Tide, Time
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LIFE AS ART
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
~ Pablo Picasso ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Canvas, Clarity, Colours, Digital Imagery, Diversity, Emotions, Imagination, Landscapes, Life, Love, Mirror, Paintbrush, Painting, Palette, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Rainbow, Sentiment, Tenor, Understanding, Verisimilitude
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SHARDS OF LIGHT
“A million candles burning for the love that never came,
you want it darker, we kill the flame…”
~ Leonard Cohen ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Books, Candles, Creativity, Darkness, Desolation, Enlightenment, Harbinger, Human, Ignorance, Imagination, Ink, Life, Lifeblood, Light, Lines, Love, Luminosity, Memories, Mirror, Night, Parchment, Paris, Passion, Past, Patience, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Seeds, Shards, Street Art, Time, Wilderness
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FANTÔMES
“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”
~ John Malkovich ~
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SILKEN
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
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SANDS OF TIME
“The sands of time are quicksands…
so much can sink into them without a trace.”
~ Margaret Atwood ~
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PILGRIM
“All of us are pilgrims on this earth.
I have even heard it said that the earth itself
is a pilgrim in the heavens.”
~ Maxim Gorky ~
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