Dante Of The East

kING | Gates of Art Original

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A “Dante Of The East” Original, done in graphite, charcoal & spray paint with 54 hours of total work time overall. 

Artwork Size: 18" x 24"

Size(w/frame): 22” x 28”

Frame Style: Dark Oak


Print Variations Available

Story

“I grew younger. And with that, I had become king; revered over fear. 

But now, I'm just a soldier, content with composure;

I'll have to let him hear.”

Those words are ringing in my head so prominently. And I’m aware of how oblivious I am of who they came from.

I can tell that the sky is grey; the world, unsaturated. I can feel the chain’s weight resisting every subtle movement I make. And I can hear the crunching snow underneath the bare flesh of my feet, pricking every nerve like shattered glass against the skin. My lips are dry and every part of my core being is stiff. And my legs are sore from walking a distance I had never been keeping track of to begin with; in a direction I could only assume was “forward”.

In honesty, I don’t even know what that means anymore. I don’t even know when I started or what came before. All I knew back then, was that I couldn’t stay still.

Because there was always that thought in the back of my mind, the one thought that seemed to be what’s been keeping me going for so long.

In the voice of which I still can not identify, it always says:

“What if...?“