ONE LONG LAST LOOK

 

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

 

~ Donna Tartt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2010.

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THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

 

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

 

~ Jack Lemmon ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the excavation of a Roman cremation burial taken in July 1987.

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ECCENTRIC

 

“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.”

 

~ Ellen Terry ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

 

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

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L’OMBRE DE LA MORT

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

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

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ALL BLUE

 

“A certain blue enters your soul.”

 

~ Henri Matisse ~

 

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

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IN THE GARDEN OF THE HONEYED MOON

 

“I have so much that I want to say to you,

but I can’t say a word.”

 

~ Michelle Burns ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris taken in Paris in May 2012.

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RÉFLEXIONS IMPRESSIONNISTES

 

“For an Impressionist to paint from nature

is not to paint the subject,

but to realize sensations.”

 

~ Paul Cezanne ~

 

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

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VOUS ETES TRÉS BEAU

 

“Imagination is everything.

It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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

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DES RÊVES LOINTAINS

 

“If the path be beautiful,

let us not ask where it leads.”

“Si le chemin est beau,

ne nous demandons pas où il mène.”

 

~ Anatole France ~

 

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

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