A Woman Embracing Damnation

How we are finding our way in this impossible paradox

Image by Romy Fernandez via Scopio

Have you ever seen Nicolas Francois Octave Tassaert’s painting La Femme Damnée (The Damned/Cursed Woman)? If you haven’t, you’re in for a treat.

It features a woman (presumably the damned one) who is being…um…attended to by a trio of otherworldly beings. And by “attended to,” I mean one appears to be…