( Illustration by Gustave Dore' )

( painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski )

( painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski )

(painting by Siegfried Zademack)

 ( ''Time Guards'', by Manfred Kielnhofer )

( painting by Nicholas Kalmakoff )

( illustration by Breck Outland )

“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.” -Mary Shelley

(photo by David Galstyan )

( painting by Agostino Arrivabene )

( painting by Natalia Smirnova )

( painting by Agostino Arrivabene )

( painting by Marjorie Cameron )

''What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.'' -T.S. Eliot
( painting by Remedios Varo )

Photo by  Alison Scarpulla

''The Memory Tower'',  by Leonora Carrington

( ''Here in the shadow'' by Natalie Shau )