"Fairwell."

He sprung from the cabin-window, as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the wave and lost in darkness and distance.

Frankenstein, 1818, by Mary Shelley, p424.

Inspired by this quote, I called this series of collages Lost in Darkness and Distance. Each landscape is made from the shoulders of Victorian cabinet card sitters.