The Dark Hereafter

"You try and keep me from the light / You try and keep me from the light, but I know it's mine / I know it's mine"

(despite erosion the mask's expression is superbe)

Yes, it looks hungry.

He opened his eyes but closed them again... the future doesn't interest him

I like your comment, Judite!

Yes, it reminds me of Walter Benjamin’s famous description:

“A Klee painting named 'Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”

What a great quotation!!!

One of the best.

I agree with Armando
Very interesting, Steve

Haunting ... I'm assuming the color is a later addition. Works, though.

The main reason I like this was that there was no later processing at all. It was an iPhone shot put on “portrait” mode; the screen seemed to be having trouble registering whether this was a face or not and what depth/ distance or light it was trying to process. So much so that there were black shadows swirling on the screen. This accidental image was the result. The only alteration I made was to crop a little off the bottom of the picture.
There’s probably the beginning of a ghost story here, taking into account that a funeral had just taken place in the church and this was the porch that the coffin the cortège had just entered and left by.

Interesting explanation, Steve! Appreciated! :)

The beginning of a ghost story, yes, and this photo could be the cover!

Fascinating!