touch

 

“Find someone who will tremble for your touch,

someone whose fingers are a poem.”

 

~ Janet Fitch ~

 

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the nature of the beast within

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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STARS

 

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

 

~Seneca ~

 

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THE SILENCE OF HER LIES

 

“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”

 

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~

 

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YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

 

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.

All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,

to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”

 

~ James Baldwin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the painting “La toilette d’Esther” by Théodore Chassériau taken in Paris in June 2019.

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BUTTE

 

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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THE NATURE OF THE BEAST WITHIN

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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

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BEHIND HER SMILE

 

“Nothingness not being nothing,

nothingness being emptiness.”

 

~ Isabelle Adjani ~

 

 

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

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STARSLEEP

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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SWARMING

 

“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”

 

~ Kellie Elmore ~

 

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BLACK NIGHT SHADOWS

 

“Despair is the price one pays for self awareness.

Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.”

 

~ Irvin D. Yalom ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

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THE GREAT EXTINCTION

 

“Our planet is currently undergoing

a mass extinction of species

called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.”

 

~ Louie Psihoyos ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2018.

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L’HORIZON EST BEAU

 

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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