THE VERY FIRST TIME

 

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in 1994.

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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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SHE WAITED FOR HIM

 

“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”

 

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon ~

 

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

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YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

 

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.

All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,

to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”

 

~ James Baldwin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the painting “La toilette d’Esther” by Théodore Chassériau taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE SLAVE

 

“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”

 

~ Mary Astell ~

 

Digitally edited and enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the painting “A vendre, esclaves au Caire” by Jean-Léon Gérôme taken in Paris in June 2019.

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VIENS DANSER AVEC MOI

 

“We’re fools whether we dance or not,

so we might as well dance.”

 

~ Japanese Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original detail photo of the sculpture “La Danse” by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux taken in Paris in June 2019.

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BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

 

“We don’t see things as they are, 

we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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

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CRYSTALLINE

 

“Faith is under the left nipple.”

 

~ Martin Luther~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by colour yourself taken in Paris in December 2019.

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LEFT BEHIND

 

“When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

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

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ΣΊΒΥΛΛΑ

 

“The Sibyl with raving mouth,

uttering things mirthless, unadorned and unperformed,

reaches over a thousand years

with her voice through the god.”

 

~ Heraclitus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the painting Ramsès dans son harem (detail) by Jean Lacomte du Noüy taken in Paris in June 2019.

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