NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

 

“The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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

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AFTERLIFE

 

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.

But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.

We are programmed to betray.”

 

~ Michael Ignatieff ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.

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LETTER

 

“I have made my bed in charnels and on coffins,

where black death keeps record of the trophies won.”

 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

 

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.Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a self portrait by Joanne drawn in June 1970.

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DIVERSITY

 

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

 

~ Malcolm Forbes ~

 

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

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SEX LEGGED DANCERS

 

“One simile, that solitary shines

in the dry desert of a thousand lines…”

 

~ Alexander Pope ~

 

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

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DEATH IN DECEMBER

 

“At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;

But like of each thing that in season grows.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2017.

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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 an original photo taken in the Taunus Mountains, Germany in 2002.

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