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Each page linked below is meant to be viewed as a
whole - while each photograph stands on its own, it also interacts
with the others in its series to tell a portion of the neverending
story of desire, passion, tragedy, strength, weakness, sadness and
love.
Please note that some of the photographs linked below may contain
implied artistic nudity.
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Happiness is like a butterfly
which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,
but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
[i p h o t o g r a f 2008] |
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Passion... it lies in all of
us.
Though unwanted, unbidden - it
will stir. Open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us, guides us.
Passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we
have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy
of love - the clarity of hatred - and the ecstacy of grief.
It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live
without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we
would be hollow, empty rooms, shuttered and dank.
Without passion we would be
truly dead.
~ Joss Whedon
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it?
It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens
up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you
and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build
up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then
one stupid person, no different from any other stupid
person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece
of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one
day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t
your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you.
It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so
simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns
into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It
hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind.
It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart
pain.
I hate love.
~ Neil Gaiman
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[Jonathon Cohon Photography 2004] |
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to love, and be loved in return.
~ Moulin Rouge
[Paladin
Photography 2004] |
For the strength of the pack is
the wolf,
and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
- Rudyard Kipling
[Jonathan
Cohon Photography 2004] |
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The innocent and the beautiful
have no enemy but Time
~ William Butler Yeats
[Visual
Edge Productions 2004]
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