#sepulcher

the model and the game are dark as hell so im gonna have to try AGAIN because I finally was able to make out its cute little whale eye(s?)

The subject of the painting is taken from an episode in Herodotus's History dealing with the Babylonian queen Nitocris. She ordered that a sepulcher be built for her over the gates in the most frequented part of the city and carved an inscription on it stating that it contained countless riches. For a long time no one dared to approach the burial vault, until the kingdom of Babylonia came under the rule of the Persian King Darius. He opened the burial chamber and found that in place of a treasure there was only mortal remains and an inscription reproaching his greed which had driven him to violate the peace of the dead.

Lviv, Ukraine

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In the flickering lantern light of a decaying mansion, where shadows stretch and contort with a life of their own, edges blur, and flesh quivers; a fragile beauty entwines with monstrosity. Gnarled hands, once delicate, now swell grotesquely, nails like twisted thorns rippling against pallid skin, while veins pulse with the venomous whispers of a long-forgotten curse. Here, in this tragic sepulcher of dreams long buried, the air is thick with the scent of iron and rot—a dangerous allure that beckons the curious only to unveil their own pale reflections disguised as abominations. A symphony of dread swells as limbs twist in unnatural marionette dances, each movement a testament to the sinister alchemy of despair, where ecstasy and horror intertwine in a chilling embrace beneath the haunted gaze of the moon, itself a witness to the transformation that bleeds through time.

Cologne, November 2017

Sepulcher