PRISON

 

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

 

~ Betsy Lerner ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

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SOLO OUT UPON THE STAGE

 

“It is little men know of women;

their smiles and their tears alike

are seldom what they seem.”

 

~ Amelia Barr ~

 

Digitally enhanced image rendered as a painting created in March 2001.

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THE IMAGE

 

“To carry language from two dimensions

into three is the task of the poets.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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

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LA PORTE VERROUILLÉE ET BOULONNÉE

 

“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

I shall find one.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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

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FACE OF STONE

 

“Cum dignitate otium.”

 

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a carved relief of a Germanic prisoner captured by the Romans, taken in Mainz, Germany in January 2014.

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