( Richard Teschner puppets )

“Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.”
 -Walt Whitman    ( painting by Ferdynand Ruszczyc )

“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.” -Arthur Conan Doyle
  ( illustration by Alfred Kubin )

“Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n” -John Milton 
 ( painting by Wladyslaw Podkowinski )

“You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / There were no birds to fly.”- Lewis Carroll

''Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore''. -Lord Byron

( illustration by Dan Hellier )