"The Eternal Kiss" is a gelatin silver print by Mike Kelley from his conceptual series "The Poetry of Form: Part of an Ongoing Attempt to Develop an Auteur Theory of Naming," which explores the relationship between photography, language, and artistic authorship. The work exemplifies Kelley's characteristic approach of combining visual documentation with theoretical frameworks that question how meaning is constructed through naming and classification in art. Mounted as a gelatin silver print, the photograph demonstrates Kelley's engagement with photographic materiality while simultaneously interrogating the linguistic and conceptual dimensions that shape artistic interpretation.