In Archaic Greece (c. 650 480 bce), Hades is an underworld god, a chthonic personification of death whose realm, divided from the land of the living by a terrible river, resembles the Mesopotamian land of the dead.
It's in playing this macabre game of what-if that I realize: Even in death, a realm that ought to be stripped of all of life's bullshit, there is still a difference in the way I see that photo with the 40 oz.
Upon Alfonso VI's death, his realms passed to his daughter Urraca, who was queen from 1109 to 1126, and her little son Alfonso (who became Alfonso VII upon Urraca's death).
Like the old Roman poet (and Whitman, too, for that matter), this American one likes to heel-and-toe it between life and death, two realms separated by a border so thin it's invisible, even though it's a mile wide poetically.
We learn from statuary in the exhibition the color code of those realms: black for life, white for death, and red for states of transition.
Adolescence may be intense, but it's hard to say it trumps the birth of a child, chronic illness, divorce or death in the realm of powerful emotions.
He asked that his funeral program begin with a quote by Frantz Fanon: "If death is the realm of freedom, then through death I escape to freedom".
Her first American retrospective, serene and ghostly, was the best solo show of the year, and saw Rasdjarmrearnsook softly and sympathetically lecture a classroom of corpses: only the most literal sign of a realm where death is not the end.
Then she got on the train, pulling herself out of the realm of death.
The blog opened conversations about death outside of the realm of hospice or advance health care directives.
