jours étranges

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

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

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the glass hungered for the wine

 

“SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate

after he has eaten its contents, madam.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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

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first time

 

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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

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THE SMOOTH BARED FLESH

 

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

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

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JOURS ÉTRANGES

 

“The nearer I come to the end of my days,

the more I am enabled to see that strange thing,

a life, and to see it whole.”

 

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.

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NAÏADE

 

“That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in September 2018.

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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – NINE

 

“En sa beauté gît ma mort et ma vie.”

“In her beauty resides my death and my life.”

 

~ Maurice Scève ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an oil painting by Vladimir Petrov seen at a flea market and taken in Paris in May 2018.

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FIRST TIME

 

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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

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THE BEST WORK OF ART

 

“The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter,

nor the harp played upon by the musician.

It is the clay modeling itself.”

 

~ E. S. Russell ~

 

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

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SEX

 

“Writing is like making love.

Don’t worry about the orgasm,

just concentrate on the process.”

 

~ Isabel Allende ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in the Rue Aubury Le Boucher in Paris in August 2015.

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