trümmer

 

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

   but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

 

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

 

Photo taken in June 2016.

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the moon shines down

 

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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the echo of silence

 

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Photo taken in November 2023.

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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

 

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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

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but she didn’t

 

“Most people never listen.”

 

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2010.

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never looked back

 

“Walk ahead, because if you look back, you will go back.”

 

~ Dragos Bratasanu ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

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shine a light

 

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

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waiting for the end

 

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

 

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

 

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

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skeletons

 

“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,

Their beards of icicles and snow…”

 

~ Charles duc d’Orléans ~

 

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

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solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only

that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken sometime in 1989.

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never looked back

 

“I never waste time looking back.”

 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

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a new abnormal

 

“Living is abnormal.”

 

~ Eugene Ionesco ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary island of La Gomera in 1991.

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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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

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NEVER LOOKED BACK

 

“I never waste time looking back.”

 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

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A NEW ABNORMAL

 

“The abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”

 

~ H.P. Lovecraft ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary island of La Gomera in 1991.

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SHAT

 

“An hour may destroy what an age was building.”

 

~ English Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2004.

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BARÏRÏTU

 

“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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

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SHINE A LIGHT

 

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

 

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

 

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

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DESSAMA

 

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

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

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THE SHROUD

 

“A flower bloomed already wilting.

Beginning its life with an early ending.”

 

~ R.J. Gonzales ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken of the grave of Joanne Elisabeth Caroline Marie Rozy (October 11, 1887 – April 15, 1891) in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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