she

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced and colourized image created from a photo taken by a friend in 1972.

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with a fork

 

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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a study of hands

 

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,

Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Picasso’s Étude des Mains (Study Of Hands) painted in Paris in the spring of 1921 taken in le Musée national Picasso–Paris in May 2015.

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NEW SPRING FLOWERS

 

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.

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VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS

 

 

“There is always something ridiculous

about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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WITH A FORK

 

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.

I’m frightened of the old ones.”

 

~ John Cage ~

 

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

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BETWEEN SENTENCES

 

“Read between the lines.

Then meet me in the silence if you can.”

 

~ May Sarton ~

 

Digital painting created in January 2019.

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