An exploration into 19th century death mystique(s), which rely heavily on the supernatural, along with a belief in (or at least a fascination with) fairy magic, much of it implied through subtle imagery. In all, it is a fascinating and astonishingly replete compendium of spiritual endeavor. The 19th century literary body of work that is, along with such masterful illustrators as Gustave Doré and others. These authors were passionately interested in what is noble and what is depraved, a far cry from present-day ethics.
"You are on a train and you are in a well and you are lying beneath the nighttime sky and as your eyes open and close, you find yourself learning not what looking feels like (as Bridget Riley painted) but what feeling looks like. There is no landscape without a body and no vision without a self. ...
and just as the swelter plateaus toward a vertical horizon
the curtain falls flat in motion
a hinge unlatches from sill
and a slab of paint is finally relieved, alighting
the window continues to open
and the window continues to open, continuing so
so that it has gone off the frame
a swift a...
The glorious nature of a phantom-like entity.