The In Between

To quote Dylan, “They say ev’rything can be replaced / Yet ev’ry distance is not near”.

Hidden Bloom

Like Serepta Mason in the Spoon River Anthology, he can shout “My flowering side you never saw!”.

After All

To quote Rohinton Mistry, “In the end, it’s all a question of balance”.

Lost & Found

Count not what is lost but what is left, as the Chinese saying goes.

Paper Moon

To quote Stephen Spender, “History is the ship carrying living memories to the future”.

In the Arms of Morpheus

“And foundering is sweet in such a sea”, as Giacomo Leopardi put it in verses.

Ophelia

Maybe it was just her temporarily thinking about something else.

The Thoughts of the Emperor

To quote Marcus Aurelius, “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”. Photo: Mado Flynn.

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Blowin’ in the Wind

A Yemeni artist paints a graffiti on a wall in the capital Sana’a calling for peace and tolerance and rejecting the ongoing conflict in the Arab country. Photo: AFP/Mohammed Huwais.

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

A “For Rent” sign is affixed on a graffiti-covered door in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York City, a neighborhood home to one of the largest Hasidic Jewish communities in the United States. Photo: AFP/Timothy A. Clary.

Secrets of Colours

La Candelaria district in Bogotá downtown, Colombia has been a global capital for any street artists since graffiti was decriminalised in 2011, making the neighbourhood look like an outdoor art museum. Photos: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.