WEATHERED

 

“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”

 

~ Michelle Cliff ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.

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BEAUTIFUL BITCH

 

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

 

~ Dion Boucicault ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.

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TICK…TICK…TICK

 

“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.”

 

~ Dante Alighieri ~

 

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I’LL WAIT

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 1979.

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WATCHING THE TREES DANCE

 

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand, an eternity in an hour.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in May 1981 .

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DEATH IS FOREVER

 

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

 

~ Hector Berlioz ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris in September 2017.

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THESE THINGS TOO

 

“Yesterday is but today’s memory,

and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.

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MUSICA UNIVERSALIS

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.

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FLESH AND BONE

 

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a X-ray created by RZFW in February 2016.

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ONCE BROKEN

 

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

 

~ Madame de Stael ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

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BLOSSOM

 

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.

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SANDS

 

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2008.

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TWILIGHT TIME

 

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”

 

~ Ecclesiastes 3 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2010.

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THIS TIME

 

“Life seems to always be in flux.

But when it comes to enacting change within ourselves

it is often only an exercise in self-deception…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the sculpture L’Adieu (1941) by Henri Laurens taken in Vienna, Austria in November 1993.

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THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken from the summit of one of the Peaks Of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the summer of 1977.

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FRAME OF REFERENCE

 

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

 

~ Ken Poirot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris in May 2013.

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DANCES I NEVER DANCED

 

“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.”

 

~ Claude Maxwell MacDonald ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2012.

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TAPIS

 

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

 

~ Theodore Roethke ~

 

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LINE, FORM AND BEAUTY

 

“I have nature and art and poetry,

and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a seagull taken in the Bay of Naples off the coast of Ischia, Italy in 1996.

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