“At the moment when we end, all our being ends with us.”
~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Posts Tagged With: Oblivion
all our being ends
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Blindness, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Heart, Infinity, Life, Nothing, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
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my turn to be forgotten
“Don’t it always seem to go
that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”
~ Joni Mitchell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.
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the ghosts of my life
“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”
~ Lauren Oliver ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a Polaroid negative taken sometime around 1970.
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cracks and crevices
“We are an episode between two oblivions.”
~ Thomas Nagel ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: After, Awareness, Before, Bloom, Cracks, Crevices, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Moments, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sentience
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fantômes
“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”
~ John Malkovich ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.
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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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a drowning man
“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”
~ Franz Kafka ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowning, Life, Light, Man, Moonless, Mountain, Nights, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Promised Land, Shadows, Shore, Slow Motion, Starless, Valley, Waters
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exit strategy
“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Exit Strategy, Fools, Handbasket, Hell, Life, Maniacs, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychopaths, Truth
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a personal observation
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chord Changes, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eye, Feet, Fingers, Hermes, History, Laughter, Life, Love, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soundtrack, Tapestry, Tears, Time, Years
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ces vieilles mains
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles
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lullaby for losers
“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canker, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Earth, Fools, Future, History, Life, Losers, Lullaby, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pig-Ignorant, Planet, Poetry, Species, Street Art, Value
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cobweb strange
“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,
for his mourners will be outcast men,
and outcasts always mourn.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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the event horizon
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Being, Breath, Canary Islands, Deleted, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, Farewell, La Palma, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry, Portal
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film noir
“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”
~ Raymond Chandler ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Claws, Cobblestones, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Film Noir, Leaves, Life, Light, Madness, Midnight, Nightmare, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadow, Windows
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the stolen years
“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”
~ Christopher Paolini ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Breath, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Gasp, Hopes, Impossibility, Lives, Oblivion, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Projects, Pyre, Routine, Stolen, Time, Wind, Years
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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 a photo taken in Paris in May 2014.
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the great silence
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
~ Markus Zusak ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by HeartCraft taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Photography, Plea, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Street Art, Time
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PHASES AND SHADOWS
“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,
don’t make the wheel start up again,
then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”
~ John Greaves ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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FADE
“Life has to be given a meaning
because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
~ Henry Miller ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Accomplishments, Anonymity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fade, Future, History, Instant, Life, Memories, Names, Nothing, Oblivion, Obscurity, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posterity, Time
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CASTING SHADOWS
“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”
~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Comprehension, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sunlight, Understanding, Universe
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LE PETIT POISSON
“To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bait, Bite, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fish, Hook, Life, Meaninglessness, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Petit Poisson, Photography, Poetry, Water, Worm
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