apples and snakes

 

“I should have no use for a paradise in which

I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”

 

~ Jean Rostand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.

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GWYNNETH

 

“Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.”

 

~ Gary Numan

 

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

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APPLES AND SNAKES

 

“I should have no use for a paradise in which

I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”

 

~ Jean Rostand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a model for a Rosenthal porcelain figure “Die Hockende” sculpted by Fritz Klimsch in 1935, taken in October 2018.

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HIGH FLYIN’ BIRD

 

“Who loves not wine, women and song,

remains a fool his whole life long.”

 

~ Martin Luther ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a seagull flying over the Seine at sunset near Notre Dame, taken in Paris in July 2013.

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THE DEATH-LIKE AGONY OF DESIRE

 

“Secrecy is the original sin.

The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden.

The basic crime against love.”

 

~ Timothy Leary ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Berlin January 2018.

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DOUBLE TAKE

 

“Paradise was made for tender hearts;

hell, for loveless hearts.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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

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NEXT TIME I’LL KNOW BETTER

 

“There’s a bit of magic in everything,

and some loss to even things out.”

 

~ Lou Reed ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a very miniature piece street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

 

“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

 

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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EYE OF THE STORM

 

“There is peace even in the storm.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digital image “Storm’s Eye” created in May 2017.

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IN HEAVEN WITHOUT WINGS

 

“La vie est un sommeil, l’amour en est le rêve.”

“Life is a long sleep and love is its dream.”

 

~ Alfred de Musset ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

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HIS LAST NIGHT IN PARADISE LOST

 

“The only paradise is paradise lost.”

 

~ Marcel Proust ~

 

Digital image “Paradise Found” created in April 2017.

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THE CONNECTION

 

“Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.”

 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France in June 2006.

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PARADISE LOST

 

“Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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PARADISE

 

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Bavaria in June 2014.

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