musica universalis

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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

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a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

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GRAVITY

 

“Because there is a law such as gravity,

the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.”

 

~ Stephen Hawking ~

 

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

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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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MUSICA UNIVERSALIS

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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

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VORTEX

 

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

 

~ Ezra Pound ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fossilized mollusk from the author’s collection taken in October 2015.

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JUPITER

 

“…within the clouds appear numerous illusions,

a woman’s face with flowing hair and a windblown robe,

a bird’s head, fantastic creatures and so much mystery…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

This photo of clouds within a mysterious jet stream region on Jupiter was taken in February 2019 by NASA’s Juno Space Probe. Photo courtesy and © of NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS and Kevin M. Gill. (I seldom use other people’s photos, but I couldn’t resist ‘borrowing’ this one.)

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SAFE HARBOUR

 

“When traversing the vast sea of loneliness,

Oneness is the only true safe harbor.”

 

~ Gary Hopkins ~

 

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

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WORDLESS

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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GRAVITY

 

“Because there is a law such as gravity,

the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.”

 

~ Stephen Hawking ~

 

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

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UNIVERSE

 

“It has been said repeatedly that one can never,

try as he will, get around to the front of the universe.

Man is destined to see only its far side,

to realize nature only in retreat.”

 

~ Loren Eiseley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in July 2015.

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ODE TO HYPERION

 

“In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

Digital image of the moon “Hyperion” created in May 2017.

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MARS

 

“Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”

 

~ Buzz Aldrin ~

 

Macro-photograph of a small fragment of a meteorite, composed of Martian material ejected into space billions of years ago when Mars was struck by an asteroid, taken in October 2016. From the author’s personal collection.

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