Byronic, illustration by Boris Pelcer

Byronic, illustration by Boris Pelcer





Byronic is a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Byronic characters, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffer endlessly. They are solitary, languid & their condition exhausts them. To feel alive it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief & destructive action (Camus, The Rebel, p.49). This series was created to visually capture the dark mysticism of Byronic characters.

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