Death and Life-in-Death

A2 sized drawing inspired by a scene from Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

Gordon Napier, Jan 2009

A skeletal ship is crewed as the sun sets, crewed only by death and a mysterious woman, who cast dice for the Mariner's soul. The woman is described thus:

'Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold...'

Admittedly there is no actual mention of tentacles, but it doesn't say she doesn't have tentacles either...