Gold hedgehog on a box pendant (Egypt, maybe 4th century –30 B.C.)

Spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari)

The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

AFTER LIFE – DEATH. AFTER DEATH; LIFE AGAIN.

AFTER THE WORLD, THE PALE; AFTER THE PALE, THE WORLD AGAIN.

AKA

The church, the sea, and the thing beyond – spiritual journey into the sublime as transcendental, beautiful and inherently terrifying – religious ecstasy, vastness and cosmic horror

Concept art for Dolorian Church of Humanity in Martinaise for Disco Elysium.

‘The Abbey in the Oakwood', Caspar David Friedrich

‘R6’, Zdzisław Beksiński

Concept art for Paleworker for Disco Elysium

Screencap from Disco Elysium

‘The Monk by the Sea’ Caspar David Friedrich

‘Impression, Sunrise’ Claude Monet

Area X/’The Shimmer' from the film ‘Annihilation’ dir. Alex Garland

Screencap from Disco Elysium

The singularity from the film ‘Akira’ dir. Katsuhiro Otoma

A fragment about Area X from the book ‘Annihilation’ (Southern Reach series) Jeff VanderMeer

Screencap from Disco Elysium