Their facial expressions read longing...
They're in love but is impossible to be together.
He cannot enter her world because it's death,
She is dying, and will be consumed by this sea of decay.
This is a lovers last embrace.
The final moment as death pulls her into cold depths and they go in for a final kiss before she decays forever and becomes a memory in the ocean of his mind...
The artist was very good at confusing and inspiring many minds into trying to work out what is even going on in this picture symbolically or literally like what even
They're in love but is impossible to be together.
He cannot enter her world because it's death,
She is dying, and will be consumed by this sea of decay.
This is a lovers last embrace.
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