27th December, 2023
Happy Deathday, Gustave: a 100-year tribute!
~ Gustave Eiffel, 15 Dec 1832 – 27 Dec 1923 ~
This is an on-going creative project in honour of Gustave’s crowning glory and my artistic muse: Lady Eiffel – the reason I’ve been in Paris more than half my life! Details below.)
I publish a photo of Paris and a short text every day as part of my Paris Photo Chronicles.
Of course, the Eiffel Tower regularly features,
but I’m not the first person to photograph this rather well-known monument!
So, I’ve set myself a lifelong artistic challenge:
To make every image of Lady Eiffel as original and unique as possible!
Above are some examples from the first 6 years of this 18-year project.
I hope you’ll keep me company for the next 12 years and beyond…
Paris Set Me Free
~ 25 years exploring the creative human experience ~
~ In the city of light and darkness ~
Your fun friend in France ❤️
Daily artistic photos of Paris 🧡
A Brit adopted by Lady Eiffel 💛
The poem that symbolises it all 💚
Unique Paris photo & curiosity tours 💙
Instagram chronicles & memes pages 💜
Painting & poetry also included ❣️
❤️ 25 years in the capital
🧡 A passion beyond words
💛 Original memes & metaphors
💚 Daily reflections on Parisian life
💙 Powerful coaching & 2-day retreats
💜 Facebook community for Paris lovers
❣️ Paris is My Reality ~ join me!
When Lady Eiffel Smiles ~ No.590
~ 13th August, 2019 ~
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Paris Photo Chronicles
~ “When Lady Eiffel Smiles” ~
On the 1st January, 2018, I started a little project. I thought I’d start publishing daily photos of Paris again, with a little text, and see if I could make a nice grid of 3 x 3 images, like my infinity² paintings.
I did, and you can see the result of those first nine on the right, in the “with-text” version. I was less wordy in those days, methinks…
My very first painting in this style, from 2004, is down on the left! I spy, with my little iPhone, a theme beginning with… “S”! You can read more about this playful yet profound concept on the infinity² web site where you can also see (and buy) all my latest paintings.
Even though my photos aren’t infinitely linked in the way the squares of my paintings are, I found a way for them to be so nevertheless.
After the challenge of nine pieces was passed, the next aim had to be… 9 x 9 = 81 Chronicles. This was duly achieved in as many days.
This is where is starts to get serious. The next level is 9 x 9 x 9 = 729 Photo Chronicles, which will take me exactly 2 years. I know it’s doable because I published over 1000 daily Paris photos and texts a few years back.
The final, completely crazy challenge, should I decide to go for it, will be to continue into 2020 and beyond in pursuit of the ultimate accomplishment for the Paris-mad “3 x 3 grid guy”: 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 = 6561 daily When Lady Eiffel Smiles Paris Photo Chronicles. Phew!
It’ll take me 18 years to do, I’ll be 70 years old when I finish, and it’ll be my crowning tribute to the city I adopted back in 1993, or did Paris adopt me, I really can’t remember…
My Latest Paris Photo Chronicles (image-only versions)
~ 23rd April – 1st May, 2019 ~
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Photo & Curiosity Tours
~ Discover Sab’s Secret Paris… with Sab! ~
Transformational Coaching
~ You come to Paris; I coach you; Your life changes! ~
( Also on-line coaching 🌏 ANYWHERE in the world! )
Transformational coaching is a powerful way to help you get the absolute best out of yourself.
I’ve developed an original approach which blends the deep insights and profound change offered by transformational coaching with my 25 years of exploring the creative human experience here in Paris.
The result is a unique revelatory experience in an around Paris itself which will lead to great positive change in your life. Together we explore your current situation and how you can make it much better or change it completely through powerful conversations and sharing rich Paris-themed metaphors and personal stories designed to help you shift. Some of the areas I’ve helped people make radical shifts in include…
Transformational coaching is much more powerful than traditional, goal-focused techniques. We are all born with practically limitless potential and are then taught to ignore it or only use a fraction. What a tragedy!
To find out how I can help you be your absolute best, get in touch, I’d love to hear from you. You can also visit my coaching site, Infinity Coaching, for more information. By the way, the only time is now…
Meme Streets of Paris
~ original mini-musings from the city of light… and darkness ~
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The Poem
Paris Set Me Free
When I gazed out from high above the Seine in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, back in the mid-90s, across towards the towers of La Défense, Mont-Valérien to the right and the capital beyond, I knew that something had changed.
Over two decades and hundreds of verses later, this simplest yet profoundest of poems has come to symbolise my life in France and rings as true today as when I wrote it, so many moons ago.
I was living on the Black Moon barge, expecting my daughter, studying for an English teaching diploma, thinking and drinking, dreaming of photography, wondering what was next.
Now much has changed, but Paris has remained, my reality, clearer than before, almost free.
My Reality
~ Sab Will, 1997 ~
This is my Paris,
My reality.
No-one sees what I see ~
It belongs to me.
This is my sky,
These are my clouds,
My reality.
I belong to no-one;
Paris set me free.
What Nice Folks Have Said…
~ a poetically random selection of utterings ~
People have said nice things ~ I’m just collecting them! 😄
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Thank you for visiting and… à bientôt !