Famous actors and celebrities cosplay as disturbed amalgams of comic book heroes, witches from medieval manuscripts and popular advertising characters: body parts stirred together in an unnatural stew. Like shapeshifters caught in the bathroom light, halfway through a particularly unflattering metamorphosis, the demon’s transgressions unfold.
Now, to the Brocken, the witches ride;
The stubble is gold and the corn is green;
There is the carnival crew to be seen,
And Squire Urianus will come to preside.
So over the valleys, our company floats,
With witches a-farting on stinking old goats
>from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s Faust.
The Brocken being the mountain site where, as German folklore has it, is the destination of Satan’s congregation on Walpurgis Night.
PENCIL AND MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER>
Willem and the witches
Nick’s furnace
Lady Gaga riding a horse to the Brocken
Heavy Metal Cruise
Lady Gaga riding a snake to the Brocken
INSTALLATION SHOTS- MIXED MEDIA MURAL WITH PENCIL DRAWINGS>
