SEKH MET

Walking through hell because a poet wanted to be loved

[james-tissot-paintings]

-Adam and Eve Driven from Paradise-

[muddyswirls]

[pierre-auguste-renoir-paintings]

-Bouquet of Flowers-

[venustapolis]

Satan and Death with Sin Intervening (Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1800)

[charnel-grounds]

Daniela Astone, “Pandere”

oil on linen, 2023

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Monument to Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, San Pietro in Vincoli (1705–07)

[classicalcanvas]

The Death of Sappho (1875) by Gustave Moreau

[beatainfernaluz]

Detail of Polyptych of the Apocalypse by Jacobello Alberegno, in Torcello, Italy. ca. 1360-90

[beatainfernaluz]

Artwork by Esther Sarto

[charnel-grounds]

Theodore Major (1908–1999), “Dance of the Skeletons”

— homage to Henri Matisse

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Darkest Day, rework of a 2019 piece by Ben J

[charnel-grounds]

Aleksandra Waliszewska, 2021

[enchantedbook]

'Dark and The Light Angel' by Edgar Ende, 1946

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Dulce María Loynaz, from “Poem XCVI,” in Absolute Solitude: Selected Prose Poems (tr. James O’Connor) (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[cine-poeme]

“Visions of Ecstasy” 1989

[churchofsuffering]

[ymutate]

Brian Haberlin (American, born 1963)

Pygmalion, 2025

Watercolor on paper

21 × 14 in (53.3 × 35.6 cm)

Private collection