sea-angels

Updated: May 5, 2025

I drew that fight, fought out in green water over the naked, choking soul, and the woman served as the model for the devils and the angels both sea-devils and sea-angels, and the soul half drowned between them. It doesn't sound much, but when there was a good light on the lower deck it looked very fine and creepy. It was seven by fourteen feet, all done in shifting light for shifting light.

Rudyard Kipling - The Light That Failed