RON HENGGELER

 

 

November 16, 2024
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A gallimaufry of color and qualities of light 

 
 

 

 
 

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Dr. Seuss

 
 

 

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Buddha

 
     

 

The Victorian Alliance Annual Dinner at the Far East Café in Chinatown

 
     

 

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

 
     

 

Living on the streets in San Francisco

 
     

 

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

 
     
 

Alamo Scare! at Alamo Square 

 
     

 

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle. 

Walt Whitman

 
     

 

My life is a marvelous collage

The jars, and other pictures from around the house

 
     

 

Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society. 

Frank Dillane

Photographing the Architecture of Homelessness in San Francisco

 
     

 

Shots from around the house

dada

 
     

 

My life is a marvelous collage

The jars, and other pictures from around the house

 
     

 

Shots from around the house

dada

 
     

 

The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the de Young

 
     

 

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. 

Gerald Way

 
     

 

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. 

Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. 

Eminem

Homeless on the streets of San Francisco

 
     
 

San Francisco Heritage at the War Memorial & Performing Arts Center (Veterans Building)

 
     

 

Photos from a friend's home and Two-Headed Calf MOOseum

 
     

 

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. 

F. Scott Fitzgeral

Living on the streets in San Francisco

 
     

 

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories. 

Oscar Wilde

 
     

 

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Harat Inayat Khan

 
     

 

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. 

Jack Kerouac

Homeless on the streets of San Francisco

 
     

 

 

 
     

 

Humanity is the earth’s nerve-endings through which planetary vibrations are received for transmission.

Gurdjieff

 
     

 

The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the de Young

 
     

 

 

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. 

First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi 

 
     
 

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. 

It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 
     

 

Seven out of ten Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. 

Pras Michel

Photographing the Architecture of Homelessness in San Francisco

 
     

 

 

 
     

 

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. 

William Blake

 
     

 

My life is a marvelous collage

The jars, and other pictures from around the house

 
     

 

Tamara de Lempicka 

The Queen of Art Deco at the de Young Museum

 
     

 

 

 
     

 

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 

Robert Montgomery

Living on the streets in San Francisco

 
     

 

San Francisco Heritage at the War Memorial & Performing Arts Center (Veterans Building)

 
     

 

The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the de Young

 
     
 

Shots from around the house

dada

 
     

 

 

 
     

 

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Louisa May Alcott

 
     

 

Three things that San Francisco is widely known for.

The Golden Gate Bridge, Cable Cars, the Homeless

 
     

 

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. 

Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

 
     

 

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry. 

Annie Leibovitz

 
     

 

My life is a marvelous collage

The jars, and other pictures from around the house

 
     

 

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. 

William Blake

 
     

 

 

 
     

 

The Victorian Alliance Annual Dinner at the Far East Café in Chinatown

 
     
 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

 
     

 

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy. 

Francis of Assisi

 
     

 

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.

Ojibway proverb

 

 
     

 

Where thou art, that is home. 

Emily Dickinson

Three things that San Francisco is widely known for.

The Golden Gate Bridge, Cable Cars, the Homeless

 
     

 

 

 
     

 

Music is . . . A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Ludwig van Beethoven 

 
     

 

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

Frida Kahlo

 
     

 

The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the de Young

 
     

 

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. 

Alice Bailey

 
     

 

 

 
     
 

Tamara de Lempicka 

The Queen of Art Deco at the de Young Museum

 
     

 

The Battle of Pavia Tapestries at the de Young

 
     

 

Nob Hill Association's Movie in the Park  

 
     

 

Photos from a friend's home and Two-Headed Calf MOOseum

 
     

 

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.  

John Howard Payne

Three things that San Francisco is widely known for.

The Golden Gate Bridge, Cable Cars, the Homeless

 
     

 

Nob Hill Association's Movie in the Park  

 
     

 

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Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light. 

Max Ernst

 
     

 

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Gertrude Stein

 

 

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