tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.

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the space to scribble

 

“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.”

 

~ Muriel Rukeyser ~

 

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

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élan vital

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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IMAGES ON A EUROPEAN DAY – PART ONE

 

“Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.

They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.”

 

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

 

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

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TREE OF LIFE

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.

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SARAH

 

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

 

~ William James ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting, circa the mid 1940’s, by my Father’s Mother, taken in December 2019.

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ABSOLUTE CLARITY

 

“For me the greatest beauty

always lies in the greatest clarity.”

 

~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~

 

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

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GIFT OF TONGUES

 

“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”

 

~ William Golding ~

 

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

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THE SPACE TO SCRIBBLE

 

“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.”

 

~ Muriel Rukeyser ~

 

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

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ÉLAN VITAL

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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THE MUDDLED BRUME OF TIME

 

“And now, for something completely different…”

 

~ Monty Python ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in July 2013.

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TROUBADOUR

 

“If songs were lines in a conversation
The situation would be fine.”

 

~ Nick Drake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo of fossil Crinoids taken in February 2018.

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