PLEIN LES YEUX

 

“Shut your eyes and see.”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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LES SECRETS LES MOINS AVOUÉS DE LA CHAIR

 

“Je suis un mensonge qui dit toujours la vérité.”

“I am a lie that always tells the truth.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an umbilicus taken in Spring 2001.

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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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NO REGRETS

 

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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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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MY WOODEN FACE

 

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2016.

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VORTEX

 

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

 

~ Ezra Pound ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fossilized mollusk from the author’s collection taken in October 2015.

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POTPOURRI

 

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

 

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1971.

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IN THIS TIME OF TOUCHING

 

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

 

~ Plato ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Albert Bartholomé taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE SANCTUARY OF THEIR BLINDNESS

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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

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WHAT WAS IT THEN

 

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

 

~ Charlotte Alington Barnard ~

 

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CURTAINED WINDOW

 

“The curtains were made for moving

cause you know sometimes you’re not always there.”

 

~ John Frusciante ~

 

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

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DEN OF THIEVES

 

“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

 

~ Hunter S. Thompson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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UNIVERSYMPHONY

 

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.”

 

~ Andre Breton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of The Colours and Voices Orchestra taken in November 2019. Photo courtesy Flora Flowerchild.

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IN HER I HAD EVERYTHING

 

“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:

Am I – or are the others crazy?”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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BACKBONE BATTLEMENTS

 

“The blues ain’t nothing but a good man feelin’ bad.”

 

~ Leon Redbone ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Jeff Aerosol taken in Paris in August 2015.

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THE DOUBT REMAINS

 

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.

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TRUTH

 

” ‘Tis strange – but true;

for truth is always strange;

stranger than fiction…”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of an etching made from a painting by G. Sanders, done in 1807, taken from the The Poetical Works Of Lord Byron published by J. & J. L. Gihon, Philadelphia 1852. From the author’s personal collection.

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THE HEART TORN OUT

 

“There is a wisdom of the head, and…a wisdom of the heart.”

 

~ Charles Dickens ~

 

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

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RAVEN BLACK

 

“You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.”

 

~ Joshua Winning ~

 

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

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