The only problem is that I was never the same again.

If you say so then it is far more then playing with the images, I think.
Me for myself I described it as "going into an image" - and then telling what I've found. Thus I came to some poems on paintings.

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And I just found that you did (and still do?) somethin similar - with poetry instead of poems, but walking into paintings...!
(Edouard Manet)