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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NOT QUITE MOUTHFULS

 

“And I thought to myself how those

fast little articles forget everything, everything,

while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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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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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

 

“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm,

a dancer’s leap in the air quite as high

as one has been expecting.”

 

~ Marcel Proust ~

 

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

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NOT QUITE MOUTHFULS

 

“And I thought to myself

how those fast little articles forget everything,

everything, while we, old lovers,

treasure every inch of their nymphancy.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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THE HUNTRESS

 

“Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste,

or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?”

 

~ Sextus Propertius ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a lamp, under whose light I have enjoyed countless delicious meals over the years, taken in May 2018. The meals are now a part of the past and the lamp has found a new home. Thank you Mateo and Giovanna.

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PORCINI

 

“If only one could tell true love from false love

as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”

 

~ Katherine Mansfield ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2017.

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WOODENHEART

 

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is

in the eyes of others only green thing that stands in the way.

Some see Nature all ridicule an deformity,

and some scarce see Nature at all.

But to the eyes of the man of imagination,

Nature is Imagination itself.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1991.

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