Satan viewing the angels' ascent to the gates of heaven. Mezzotint Engraving by John Martin; from illustrations to Milton's Paradise Lost (1825 edition).

Antique Japanese Gift Wrap design

Noir -- (an alley in Denver, Colorado).

Steel soul confronting resistance

Cracks in eternity.

A cell at the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Noam Chomsky and like minded "intellectuals" would explain the torture and murder that took place here by rambling about "America's role" in producing this Marxist state gulag. Such con-artists of socialist hypocrisy will never acknowledge the consistent role of socialist utopian ideology in feeding the death tolls of countries around the world. The Khmer Rouge leadership where intellectual elitists, educated in France and fully committed to the Marxist / Maoist "ideal" of the perfect "egalitarian" society.

Throughout human history, envy (of power and success) and the obsession to impose control over human nature have killed far more people than "greed."

Take your "revolution" and shove it.

If I love big brother and the party maybe they'll let me continue to smile. (A propaganda poster in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.

Self-loathing in the fantasy kingdom of spoiled brats.

Tea House Yard (the Forbidden City, Beijing, China).

Bifurcation and beauty (cherry blossoms in Nagaoka, Japan).