I’m currently in Tallinn, Estonia, where I discovered this image by a local artist. It is a piece very reminiscent of the work of weird artist Jason Van Hollander - especially his illustrations of Ligotti’s work; in particular, the above reminds me of the nightmarish, crooked, creaking urban conurbations which populate the more oneiric of Ligotti’s fictions such as Vastarien, Doctor Voke and Mister Veech, Doctor Locrian’s Aslylum, The Mystics of Muelenberg, The Strange Design of Master Rignolo, and In a Foreigh Towm, In a Foreign Land, to name but a few.
A timely reminder that, whoever we mistakenly think we are (especially if we think we are someone), and no matter where we think we are or live, all we can ever aspire to is the knowledge that we all - every one of us - inhabit the some variant of the same decrepit, cooked, creaking town beneath the bruised black skies of the same crooked, creaking universe.
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