these waters flow

 

“He saw that this water flowed and flowed,

it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there;

it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment!”

 

~ Hermann Hesse ~

 

Photo taken in May 2017.

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soft machine

 

“Open your mind and let the pictures out.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

Drawing created in February 2024.

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my blank pages

 

“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”

 

~ Gaston Bachelard ~

 

Photo taken in August 2020.

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sextivity

 

“Closure is a greasy little word which,

moreover, describes a nonexistent condition.

The truth is that nobody gets over anything.”

 

~ Martin Amis ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

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the river flows

 

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,

breathe under water till the end, yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Robbie Krieger ~

 

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

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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moonchild

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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

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the drowning man

 

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

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baptize your brushes

 

“There is peace even in the storm.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021 of a shipwreck painted in the mid 1940’s by my grandmother Sarah.

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childhood’s end

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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reboot required

 

“The two most common elements in the universe

are hydrogen and stupidity.”

 

~ Harlan Ellison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.

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tiptoe away

 

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

 

~ Cyril Connolly ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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page three

 

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

 

~ James Thurber ~

 

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

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the river flows

 

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,

breathe under water till the end,

yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Robbie Krieger ~

 

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

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taste alone

 

“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue

than live and never touch you again.”

 

~ Michelle Hodkin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1986.

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MOONCHILD

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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

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TETHYS

 

“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,

involves the whole human race.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Aegean Sea between Thera (Santorini) and Crete in October 1992.

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BOUILLON

 

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

 

~ Moliere ~

 

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

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PATIENTLY WAITING

 

“Patience is a virtue…and a curse…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken with a 110 format Pentax SLR camera in Bristol, England in July 1980.

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