![]() ![]() Her hair is splayed around her head, and although her eyes are closed and her body could be relaxed in sleep, she is unquestionably dead. The girl of Beautiful Darkness looks to be about ten-years-old. Poe misogynistically claims there’s no subject more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman (“ The Philosophy of Composition“), but since his wife was 13 when he married her, “girl” would be the more accurate term. I’m a parent and so especially susceptible to the horror of the image, but it’s more than that. ![]() The sixth page of Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët‘s Beautiful Darkness is currently haunting me: a child’s corpse lying on a forest floor. ![]() They become afterimages, a kind of mental scar marring your visual memory. ![]()
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