CADENS

// CADENS = FALLING DOWN //

"Downward they all plunge headlong to the deep,
Where lake Avernus spreads its jaws in steep,
And, in the jaws, I find,
That road without a guide or path we wind."

"The Aeneid" Book VI, lines 126-129 (translated by John Dryden)

(In this passage, Aeneas and the Sibyl (his guide) descend into the Underworld through the entrance at Lake Avernus. The imagery of plunging "headlong to the deep" vividly conveys the dramatic and eerie journey into the realm of the dead)

Graphite & ink x Ai x digital painting by Rocketgirl