This is one of my darker sets and I hesitated to even save it because it is so dark...at least to my eye. See, when people think of death it is generally void of light. All of life's depravity sits comfortably in the dark. That's where we want it, and thats where we can visit it when our lust for sin takes over.

But this set is washed in light. The dress is a shimmery gold, the shoes, jewelry and jacket a light silvery grey. The haunting photograph (thank you, fabulon) is LIGHT...pure death...but light. So if you find this image to be unsettling, I think that's why. We're just not used to seeing death in the light of day. It's horrors are too easy and painful to see. Perhaps if we shined a light onto all that lives in the dark, we would not be so quick to revisit from time to time.

Then again...

(excerpt from "Music of the Night")
Night-time sharpens,
heightens each sensation ...
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination ...
Silently the senses abandon thier defences ...

Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendour ...
Grasp it, sense it - tremulous and tender ...
Turn your face away from the garish light of day,
turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light -
and listen to the music of the night ...

--Andrew Lloyd Webber "The Phantom of the Opera"