mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

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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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DIMENSIONS

 

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Musee du Louvre in Paris in February 2007.

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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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LE CŒUR INTÉRIEUR

 

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

 

~ Marcel Proust ~

 

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

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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – FIVE

 

“Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.”

 

~ Gail Sheehy ~

 

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

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A GOOD PLACE TO DIE

 

“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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