#passage

Tsarskiy Kurgan, Kerch, Crimea, 4th century BCE.

The structure features a unique corbelled system, where each successive layer of stone protrudes slightly inward to create a vault. This specific 36-meter-long entrance passage is called a dromos.

It is widely believed to have been the final resting place of a ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom, Leukon I.

The Midnight Passage, Annie Stegg Gerard

16x20 inches

A spontaneous painting inspired by stone's colors. Huge tall bridges, endless and shifting from one to another, leading you through different lands. A common motif in my dreams, and for me it often starts with a railway bridge.

...the round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.

-- Hope Mirrlees