Maria Denise Dessimoz, The Inevitable Anguish Of Desire

Leevi and the Leavings - Pimeä tie, mukavaa matkaa [Häntä Koipien Välissä, 1988]

The Colosseum on a Monnlit Night, c.1830 by Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789–1869)

{2022} sleepy head let darkness fall around you like soft velvet cloth let ghosts embrace and warm you and console

Ay-O & Emmett Williams. Hole, 1968

Oblivion Gate (Large)

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Art by R Todd Broadwater

“To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.”

— Maurice Blanchot, The Madness of the Day

The Garden of Self-Love

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

"A mediterranean Harbour with classical Ruins, a Figure of Neptune and a Fountain in the Foreground" by Isaac de Moucheron, 1725