"The Silence of the Forest" (Das Schweigen des Waldes), by Arnold Böcklin, 1896.

Taken in the Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographed by Edward Ololoso Dean

Igor Stravinsky, 1911

The figure grips the column framing him and literally bites into it, his face twisted into a grimace, while a rosary on his belt hints at the message: a warning against excessive, performative piety and hypocrisy, looking devout in public, but acting differently at home.

acrylic on panel

Hernán Conde de Boeck, “Sorcerer of the Puppets”

The famous Kildrummy skeleton grave marker, Kildrummy Parish Church, Aberdeenshire

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Death is centrifugal Solar and logical Decadent and symmetrical Angels are mathematical

heretic's fork

Andrew Wyeth, The Carry, 2003, Tempera on panel

sea, swallow me