The end of all things is black. Decayed meat turns black, decayed plants and dead teeth turn black. Whoever sees black from hunger, almost dies from hunger. Grim Reaper and the executioner wear black because they sow death and destruction. The painter Kandinsky described black as: “And like a nothing without possibility, like a death nothing after the sun has died out, like an eternal silence without a future and hope, black sounds inwardly.”
Heller (1989)