"In a dim corner of my room
For longer than my fancy thinks,
A beautiful and silent Sphinx
Has watched me through the shifting gloom.

Inviolate and immobile
She does not rise she does not stir
For silver moons are nought to her
And nought to her the suns that reel.

Red follows grey across the air,
The waves of moonlight ebb and flow
But with the Dawn she does not go
And in the night-time she is there.
.....
Come forth my lovely seneschal!
So somnolent, so statuesque!
Come forth you exquisite grotesque!
Half woman and half animal!"

“The Sphinx” (1894) by Oscar Wilde

Digital painting, made in procreate, 13 hours of work
PNG, 300 dpi, 5000x5000 px