20/02/2022 20:02:20 ¶ ●

Lights Out / Sandmann
I came across episode 98 again. It strikes a chord with me, mostly because E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann is one of my favorite books that I had to read for school. The language is great and it is as creepy as it is hilariously over the top. I illustrated one of the scenes back in school and did it and some more again during my Bachelor years. It was such fun.

Also some Maxwell Rayner here: One has I imagined him from Basira’s statement and one for how he is described in the statement from episode 89.

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[image descriptions:
1) The image is a digital charcoal drawing. In an long, oval shape it depicts a tall figure, with lengthened features looming over two people, a man and a woman lying in a bed. A stream of blackness is gushing out of the figures mouth. In what might be his hands it his holding the edge of a black shape, which melts with the surrounding darkness. The man is propped up on his arms, staring up at the figure, while his wife sleeps peacefully next to him.
2) It is a digital painting in light blues, greys and dirty yellows, showing a creature with a humanoid body and a bird’s head feeding its sharp-beaked bird brood an eyeball. The creature is dressed in a long 17th century frock-coat and wears a wig on its head. In one hand it holds a small string bag. In the background clouds are shifting in front of a moon.
3) This portrait of Rayner shows him as a black middle-aged man, with a collar that hints hat victorian times. His hair is streaked with grey, his eyes are completely white. He too is lit from the front, black shadowy tendrils are staring to envelope him from below.

4) The head of the People’s Church of the Divine Host is depicted as a white old, thin man, wearing a dusty, black robe and being surrounded by darkness in shadow and dark specs hanging in the air. He is lit from the front and slightly from below, the light shining on his white, cloud-like hair and beard, his milky white eyes and a stream of blackness flowing out of his open mouth.]