SHEYD ▲ GARDEN

13/11/2022 2:44:00 ¶ ●

a collage and pen image showing a doll's head (with black metal-style corpse paint) and arms on a large mass of textures and images making up a body, including two owls holding a magic book. the doll holds a pike with the severed head of a fascist, and the owls are nibbling on strings of its flesh. the doll's head has a locket with "Minerva" written on it and "metal head" is written across her collarbones.

Minerva Metalhead, 2019 (for Black Metal Rainbows, available for pre-order)

i keep meaning to do more in this vein of collage-with-pen! i was invited to contribute to this anthology & remembered that i had saved the head & arms of a vintage doll ad (“Minerva” was the company, the new metal head was the selling point). it turned into a piece about feminist & specifically anti-fascist black metal, playing on Minerva as the goddess of wisdom, the arts & war. the book the owls are holding is open to images from the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, attributed to a foundational woman alchemist from 3rd or 4th century Greece.

also, sometimes you’re out doing errands & you run into a neo-Nazi with an SS bolt facial tattoo, so you come home & draw that on a head on a pike.