“I always teach Crane’s horrific “The Open Boat,” and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I’ve always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls.”
immerse into darkness. this is one of the darkest albums i’ve listened to. reall great stuff.
(Source: Spotify)
Tocsin (2011/2012, oil, enamel and shellac on canvas, 56 x 78)
by Samantha Keely Smith
(via samanthakeelysmith.com)
Nahfeld Phase 7, 2010, 150 x 140 cm, Tusche auf Leinwand, Privatsammlung (by Philipp Haager via strzelski.de)
by Ian Francis (source ifrancis via booooooom.com)
Deliverance by Simon Kenny on Saatchi Online.
Wrath by Simon Kenny on Saatchi Online
(Source: wilmahathaway, via paintedfire)
