Self Portrait XIV

Self Portrait XIV: Confidence in Ugly Body Image, Digital Painting, 2008


Halloween lyrics special:

Shadows upon shadows passing
It is now 1831,
And as always I am absorbed with a delicate thought
It is how poetry has indefinite sensations
To which end,
music
is an essential
Since the comprehension of sweet sound
is our most indefinite conception
Music when combined with a pleasurable idea
is poetry
Music without the idea
is simply
music
Without music
or an intriguing idea
Color,
becomes pallor
Man,
becomes carcass
Home,
becomes catacomb
And the dead,
are but for a moment,
motionless.

From Alan Parson's Project's Fall of the House of Usher, composed of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe