élan vital

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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

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UNSOILED AND UNSINNED

 

“What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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NO REHEARSAL

 

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of my lovely Ladies taken sometime around 1991.

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OCTOBER OCTAVES

 

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

 

~ Norman Maclean ~

 

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

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JEUNESSE

 

“Stolen waters are sweet,

and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

 

~ Proverbs 9:17 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Aristide Maillol’s sculpture Jeunesse  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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PASSIONATE DIMENSIONS

 

“Our passions are the true phoenixes;

when the old one is burnt out,

a new one rises from its ashes.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a portrait of an unknown woman taken in Paris in May 2018.

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ÉLAN VITAL

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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

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