woe, all 21 oblivion class watercolors be upon ye

The Sacred Tree (Enrique Serra Auqué, 1859 - 1918)

Her Celestial Kindliness, the Ninth Reborn, The Necrolady Prime, Necromancer and Cavalier Harrowhark the First

Rick Amor

Hanging Rock

1988

“Does not death lurk without?”, from Goethe’s Faust by Harry Clarke (1927)

'Evening Bells' by Carlos Schwabe (1886-1926)

mourner

Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, France ca. 1230

BnF, Français 19093, fol. 23v

Thomas Blackshear

Henning von Gierke

How to Be a Poet

by Wendell Berry

(to remind myself) I  Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment. II Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. III Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

A. Burdet after A. Raffet, Allegory of Cholera Mortality, 19th century

Haji Widayat (Indonesian, 1919 - 2002)

Haji Widayat (Indonesian, 1919 - 2002)

Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller (French, 1815--1892)