time

 

“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely.

He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost,

a thing that can haunt a man’s days and nights.”

 

~ Cathie Pelletier ~

 

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

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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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ALONE

 

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

 

~ Yul Brynner ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1981.

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UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

 

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

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SPOONED

 

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

 

~ Matshona Dhliwayo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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PEACE

 

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

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DEAD ROSES

 

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

 

~ Robert Hunter ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2017.

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LUNACY

 

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

 

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.

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HALCYON

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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CAMOUFLAGED

 

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

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

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FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

 

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

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

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À TRAVERS LE MIROIR

 

“I can explain all the poems that were ever invented –

and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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LARMES DE BLEU

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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STEP INTO THE DARKNESS

 

“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

 

~ Meister Eckhart ~

 

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

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THE VIRGIN

 

“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”

 

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

 

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

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WEE

 

“It takes a long time to become young.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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PORTAILS PARALLÈLES

 

“What if, instead of a parallel universe,

there’s a perpendicular universe?”

 

~ Robert Breault ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2018.

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