OBLIVION

 

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

 

~ Thomas Nagel ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of just a few of the many boxes taken in May 2005.

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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

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BLACK DEATH

 

“All has been looted, betrayed, sold;

black death’s wing flashed ahead.”

 

~ Anna Akhmatova ~

 

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

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SEED

 

“Words are also seeds,

and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance,

they grow and bring forth after their kind.”

 

~ Charles Fillmore ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in March 2020..

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PAS D’AVENIR

 

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work.

We cannot keep living on hope, though.”

 

~ Erik Pevernagie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in December 2019.

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FANTÔMES

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

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

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A WALK DOWN LONELY STREET

 

“Lonely men with lonely eyes are seeking her in vain.”

 

~ Oscar Hammerstein II ~

 

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

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LA FISSURE

 

“You spend so much time, so much effort,

trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

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

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THE IMAGE

 

“To carry language from two dimensions

into three is the task of the poets.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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

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AND THE DEAD LAUGH

 

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the wall of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise that runs along the Rue du Repos taken in Paris in June 2019.

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