la malédiction

 

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

 

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

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blind eye

 

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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fantômes

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

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flapper

 

“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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the wind in the willows

 

“The most priceless possession of the human race

is the wonder of the world. Yet, latterly, the utmost endeavours

of mankind have been directed towards the dissipation of that wonder.”

 

~ Kenneth Grahme ~

 

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

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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.

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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.

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nymphonettes

 

“I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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it’s all done with mirrors

 

“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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pandora’s box

 

“In naked beauty more adorn’d, more lovely than Pandora.”

 

~ John Milton ~

 

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

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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.

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nevereveragainland

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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

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spice

 

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

 

~ Joan Aiken ~

 

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la rue de ma vie

 

“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink

in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018. The reflection is real.

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dans une ambiance bleue

 

“Well I just came to chase the blues away for awhile.”

 

~ Tim Buckley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in July 2018.

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a very nice pair

 

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”

 

~ Mark Antony ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Federici taken in Paris in June 2018.

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fièvre

 

“My love is as a fever, longing still.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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la muse

 

“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”

 

~ Philip Sidney ~

 

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

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des couleurs dans ma vie

 

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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

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