The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.
AFTER LIFE – DEATH. AFTER DEATH; LIFE AGAIN.
AFTER THE WORLD, THE PALE; AFTER THE PALE, THE WORLD AGAIN.
AKA
The church, the sea, and the thing beyond – spiritual journey into the sublime as transcendental, beautiful and inherently terrifying – religious ecstasy, vastness and cosmic horror
Concept art for Dolorian Church of Humanity in Martinaise for Disco Elysium.
‘The Abbey in the Oakwood', Caspar David Friedrich
‘R6’, Zdzisław Beksiński
Concept art for Paleworker for Disco Elysium
Screencap from Disco Elysium
‘The Monk by the Sea’ Caspar David Friedrich
‘Impression, Sunrise’ Claude Monet
Area X/’The Shimmer' from the film ‘Annihilation’ dir. Alex Garland
Screencap from Disco Elysium
The singularity from the film ‘Akira’ dir. Katsuhiro Otoma
A fragment about Area X from the book ‘Annihilation’ (Southern Reach series) Jeff VanderMeer
Screencap from Disco Elysium
The Zone from the film ‘Stalker’ dir. Andrei Tarkovsky