STARDUST

 

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on 

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

 

~ Laini Taylor ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from the photos of two small surface fragments from Mars (left fragment) and the Moon (right fragment), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

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TINY TINSEL STAR

 

“Popularity – a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.

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POINTS OF LIGHT

 

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

 

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

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ICARUS’ SISTER

 

“It was sad and fierce all at once,

alive with a lonely purity.”

 

~ Karen Russell ~

 

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

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ROUGH-HEWN

 

“The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell

to free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

 

~ Michelangelo ~

 

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

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MOONSTONE MAGIC

 

“The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a lunar achondrite meteorite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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RIEN

 

“No one here gets out alive.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo of the moon taken in Paris in May 2011.

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SPARKLE

 

“For small creatures such as we,
the vastness is bearable only through love.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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THE SOURCE

 

“Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digital art “Surge” created in December 2016.

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SHADOW AND LIGHT

 

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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