embonpoint

 

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons.

But in your hands they tremble and fill with song like plump, white birds.”

 

~ Cecilia Llompart ~

 

Digitally enhanced and colourised image created from an analog black and white photo taken in November 1981.

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ONE TWEET AT A TIME

 

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities,

are incapable of self-government.”

 

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

 

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

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THE GREAT EQUALIZER

 

“The two most important days in your life

are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Rodin’s sculpture Iris (detail) in the Musée Rodin taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE SCULPTOR’S WHORE

 

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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

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ANONYME

 

“Slowness is a beauty.”

 

~ Auguste Rodin ~

 

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

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RÊVE DU SCULPTEUR

 

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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

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FLAVOURS

 

“Art is an action against death.

It is a denial of death.”

 

~ Jacques Lipchitz ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a work by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in May 2012.

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LIFE TURNS TO STONE

 

“I wept not, so to stone within I grew.”

 

~ Dante Alighieri ~

 

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

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L’AVANT-GARDE

 

“Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased

only by a revolution in permanence.”

 

~ Harold Rosenberg ~

 

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

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A DIME A DOZEN

 

 

…i have been dealing with this kind of conversation for decades,

only the names of the instruments have been changed to protect the innocent…

 

 

 Photo taken in the Café de Flore in Paris in July 2014.

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HER WOODEN HEART

 
 

 

“And when a whisper became a begging
it was time to move on.”

~ Veronika Jensen ~

 
 

 

Photo taken in February 2016.

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WAITING

 

…he wondered if she was vaguely aware that the adventure was yet to come…

 

 

Photo of Isabel Miramontes’ sculpture En Attentant taken in the Galerie de Medicis in the Place des Vosges in Paris in August 2015.

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