An assemblage based on the tradition of the May Queen. I was fascinated by the idea (truthful or fictional) that the May Queen was a human sacrifice to secure a good harvest. This piece is intended to be a funeral shrine for a dead May Queen, building on the tradition of Victorian mourning art and its use of symbolism and sentimentality. Each object has significance...but I'm writing a friggin' essay on this piece, so if you really want to know the whole story you can note me or something.
This is stunning, it gives me goosebumps! I was always fascinated with the Victorian period and this represents it so well. Thank you very much for posting it. I have to ask though, where did you get the bird skull?
i don't know where deadgods got the skull from but if you're curious about this stuff i have a rat skull just as small that i kept from my dead gerbil. I left the body in the garden and two weeks later when i came back all i found was the clean skull