PASSION PLAY

 

“I shape beauty to human mouths,

give wings to insight.

I make naked the word.”

 

~ The Dialogue of the Two Sages ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken of a mannequin in December 2019.

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RUINES

 

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”

 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo, detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France, taken in Paris in December 2019.

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DANS UN BROUILLARD

 

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by @Talmé_one taken in Paris in December 2019.

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JE VIS À DANSER

 

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the painting Ramsès dans son harem (detail) by Jean Lacomte du Noüy taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE FORTUNE TELLER

 

“Petty fortune telling was the field of the wishful.

Witches dealt in blood and bones.”

 

~ Ginn Hale ~

 

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

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VERSE TOUJOURS

 

“Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.”

 

~ Lucille Clifton ~

 

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HIDDEN

 

“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,

and more than one believes.”

 

~ Renee Vivien ~

 

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

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THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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

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LES DEUX AMANTS

 

“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful,

because we have had to love in order to live;

love has been our survival.”

 

~ Audre Lorde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Jules-Robert Auguste’s painting Deux Femmes Dénudées (1825-1830)  in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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ROSE

 

“Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.”

 

~ Fernando Pessoa ~

 

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

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