Echoing Sins

Peacock sculptures on an <n>Art Nouveau</n> doorway in Prague.

# The Dark Place is where obsession begins.



You're alone- with nothing but a true, relentless, consuming love for something. A craft. A medium. A mission.



You haven't done anything. Your friends and family don't get you. Your new friends haven't found you.



This time can be unbelievably painful, and unbelievably magical. There's purity and beauty- in the work, the iteration, the endless hours that no one ever sees



All The Obsessed went through this place. Arnold lifting in small gyms in Austria. Walt drawing and sketching in the shed behind his childhood home.



The only way out of The Dark Place..is through. Follow obsession, like a light that never dims, and it will take you where you need to go.

Photo by <n>Constance Victoria Phillips</n>.

The book cover for <n>Arouse</n> by author <n>Nina Lane</n>.

An <n>Art Nouveau</n> bathroom with intricate mosaic tilework at <n>Le Château Laurens</n> in Agde, France.

<n>Camp Sarika</n> in Utah, designed by <n>Luxury Frontiers</n> in collaboration with <n>Amangiri</n>. Photo by <n>Aman</n>.

Illustration by <n>Clarence Larkin</n> from his book <n>Dispensational Truth</n> (1918).

Eudaimonia
Greek - state or condtion of good spirit and which is commonly translated as happiness or welfare. Highest human good. (Aristotle)

An <n>Art Nouveau</n> style bathroom created by <n>Thierry Lechanteur</n> using Midjourney AI.

An <n>Art Nouveau</n> door lock created by locksmith <n>Frank Koralewski</n> in 1911.

<n>The Angel of Sadness</n> (c. 1900) by Polish <n>Symbolist</n> painter <n>Wilhelm Kotarbiński</n>.

The dining room fireplace at <n>Villa Majorelle</n>, designed by <n>Alexandre Bigot</n>. Photo by <n>Luc Boegly</n>.

The Greek island of <n>Astypalaia</n>, photographed by <n>Konrad Helbig</n> in the 1960s-1980s.

Model <n>GABI RODRIGUES</n> photographed by <n>Nicholas Fols</n> with styling by <n>Ivana Julian</n>.

Stained glass window in <n>Kudowa, Poland</n>.

A portrait of model <n>Gisele Bündchen</n>.

An <n>Art Nouveau</n> style vestibule, a digital artwork by <n>Thierry Lechanteur</n> created with <n>Midjourney</n>.

Photo by <n>Steve Cadman</n> of <n>The Maison Lavirotte</n>, an <n>Art Nouveau</n> building by <n>Jules Lavirotte</n>.

The <n>Art Nouveau</n> bathroom at <n>Château Laurens</n>, decorated by <n>Eugène Simas</n>. Photo by <n>Guilhem Canal</n>.