bats

 

“The colour of my soul is iron-grey

and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

 

~ Claude Debussy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

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in my time of dying

 

“For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2014.

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BATS

 

“The colour of my soul is iron-grey

and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

 

~ Claude Debussy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of stenciled street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

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DIMENSIONS

 

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Musee du Louvre in Paris in February 2007.

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CRINKLE CRANKLE

 

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of the ruins of the Celtic defensive wall on the Altkönig mountain in Germany in the summer of 1985.

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THE RIDER

 

“If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs,

your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.”

 

~ Abbie Hoffman ~

 

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

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BAUDELAIRE

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken of the grave of Charles Baudelaire in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in February 2007.

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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – FIVE

 

“Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.”

 

~ Gail Sheehy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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WINDOW

 

“There is not a particle of life

which does not bear poetry within it.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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

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TROUBADOUR

 

“If songs were lines in a conversation
The situation would be fine.”

 

~ Nick Drake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo of fossil Crinoids taken in February 2018.

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A GOOD PLACE TO DIE

 

“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2017.

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BLOWN AWAY

 

“I start in the middle of a sentence

and move both directions at once.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

Original photo of street art taken on the Rue du Marche des Blancs Manteaux in Paris in May 2017.

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