Marketa Lazarová

@permease23

“On the other side of the wall was a party, and I was doing prostrations”

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“Nous descendons spiralement, depuis quinze années, dans un vortex d’infamie, et notre descente s’accélère jusqu’à perdre la respiration.”

— Léon Bloy, Le Désespéré (1886).

Alchemy involves a sublimatio, a making subtle, effected by the dark transformative processes of mortification & putrefaction. That is to say, soul-making cannot take place without decay and a painful dying to life

THOMAS MOORE — Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism, (1990)

The Descent from the Cross (12th c.).

Originally from Santa Maria de Taüll.

@ the National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona.

Albrecht Dürer (workshop of) - Mystical winepress with Mater Dolorosa (c. 1510). Detail.

Holy Ascension Church (est. 1894), Unalaska.

> Photo: Jet Lowe (1984).

Whale bones, St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne.

Church of the Image of Edessa (est. c. 1747), Ошеть, Kirov Oblast.

Cemetery, Unalaska (c. 1904).

> Photo: Frank Hamilton Nowell.

Holy Ascension Church (est. 1894), Unalaska.

> Photo: Jet Lowe (1984).

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Ether, the White Angel; Melancholy, the Black Angel.

Stephanie Dickinson, Blue Swan Black Swan: The Trakl Diaries; from ‘Fata Morgana, 1906’

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Illustration from The Beggar’s Vision by Brookes More and William Stanley Braithwaite (Illustrated by Tracy Porter Rudd, 1921)

Einar Jónsson, Verndarengillinn (Guardian Angel)

Nicola di Ulisse - Sant’Andrea e la battaglia fra Ginesini e Fermani del 1377 (c. 1463). Detail.

Luis Tristán - The Penitent Magdalene.

Vincenzo Pietrosanti - Crocifisso (1624).

@ Il Santuario del Crocifisso, Selvascura.

Jean de Beaumetz - Calvary with a Carthusian Monk (c. 1389). Detail.

KAZEA - I. Ancestral (2025).

Cover art by Aron Bonogofsky.

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