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March 14th marks the third solo show for San Francisco based surrealist Leilani Bustamante (covered here) at Modern Eden Gallery, "Haunt". Her work often voices themes of mortality exploring elements of death, rebirth, and beauty. Inspired by Robert W. Chambers' supernatural story "The King in the Yellow", her show offers newly haunting, romanticized scenes that follow an abstract narrative. In the story, characters such as artists and decadents are followed by an ominous entity known as "The Yellow King" which induces fear and slowly leads to the unraveling of their self identity. They are further plagued by the theme, "Have you found the Yellow Sign?", an eerie symbol of nonhuman origin and purpose that is never fully explained.