Starry night melting
Van Gogh inspired disappearance

Under moonlit artificial night
The ceiling skylight mirrors the sky
Stars peek down in awe...watching
Van Gogh Melting
Salvador Dalí and The Persistence of Memory
A futuristic cityscape where time itself is liquefying
Glass skyscrapers drip like wax candles under a surreal sun,
Drones sag midair, and the laws of physics melt away on Dalí’s desert plain.

🐍 Frida Kahlo projects The Melting of Identity . A self-portrait with layers of the face slowly melting into vivid jungle flora and fauna, where pain dissolves into freedom...mirroring Kahlo’s surreal introspection - yet blooming with regeneration.
🎭 Pablo Picasso has a Cubist Ice Cream Apocalypse . An abstract café scene with faces and objects constructed from melting scoops of Picasso-styled ice cream - the geometry breaks apart as reality slips away, leaving color trails in the sun.
🔥 Vincent van Gogh imagines a Starry Night Inferno that ignites, its swirling galaxies dripping molten light onto a sleepy town below, where houses and trees bend and warp like candle wax under cosmic heat - madness meets beauty in a blaze of emotion.
🖌️ Yayoi Kusama is a Polka Dot Glacier Melt ...A patterned landscape of polka-dotted glaciers melting into pools of mirrored infinity...reflecting the viewer’s distorted self endlessly in immersive visions.

🐾 Jean-Michel Basquiat wears a Molten Crown ...In chaotic street scenes where golden crowns drip from the sky, symbols of power liquefying over graffiti-tagged ruins, voices of resistance scrawled in melting ink as defiance bleeds into history.
🖋️ Time somehow warps into a vision...something hauntingly immersive:
Their brushstrokes pull me through veils
of color, of memory, of things not quite said.
A golden crown dripping onto a fractured smile,
eyes wide and brittle, like windows holding back storms.
Van Gogh’s stars swirl behind me, unbothered,
spinning tales I cannot grasp but feel tugging at my ribs.
The canvas breathes. And in its sigh,
I find pieces of myself scattering.
Red melts into blue. Noise fades into silence.
And in that silence, I vanish -
not lost,
just finally
unwritten.
I stand gazing into their paintings and disappear without a trace.
About the Creator
Antoni De'Leon
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. (Helen Keller).
Tiffany, Dhar, JBaz, Rommie, Grz, Paul, Mike, Sid, NA, Michelle L, Caitlin, Sarah P. List unfinished.
Reader insights
Outstanding
Excellent work. Looking forward to reading more!
Top insight
Compelling and original writing
Creative use of language & vocab



Comments (8)
Fascinating read and images… well deserved Honourable Mention.
I got a little shiver at that last line. I think this is a good thing! I’m so sorry I missed this but happy to see your placing Antoni! Very creative and love the combo of the first two of Dali and Van Gogh!😃 🎉
Congratulations for your Honorable Mention! This is such a unique vision for this challenge. I love the ***blend***. ⚡💙Bill ⚡
Wooohooooo congratulations on your honourable mention! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
What a glorious conversation to have with these great creators, madness, pain and stress of a life filled with genius and heartbreak. Beautifully crafted.
Beautiful cover . Goes well with your poem.
This felt like stepping into a melting museum of the mind. Loved it!
Lovely descriptions! Glorious work Antoni! 🫶🏾💪🏾🌸