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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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.

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TICK…TICK…TICK

 

“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.”

 

~ Dante Alighieri ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.

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GRACE MY TABLE

 

“Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story

of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.

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THE TERPSICHORE OF TENDERNESS

 

“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”

 

~ Joseph Joubert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Mlle M. Rellew taken in February 2021.

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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 an unknown photo format taken sometime around 1970.

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TREE OF LIFE

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.

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SHARDS OF LIGHT

 

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

 

~ Leonard Cohen ~

 

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

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LITTLE BLACK KITTY

 

“There are no ordinary cats.”

 

~ Colette ~

 

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

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PAIN

 

“Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.”

 

~ Jeanette Winterson ~

 

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

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PATIENTLY IN PLACE

 

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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

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THE RED DOOR

 

“Be first and be lonely.”

 

~ Ginni Rometty ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Place des Vosges, Paris in May 2016.

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JINN

 

“Between the wish and the thing lies life, waiting.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Original photograph taken in March 2017.

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THE PERTINACIOUS CAT

 

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience –

that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

 

Elizabeth Taylor

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

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