writernotwaiting:

lunariagold:

‘Alchemy’ – I was looking at ashes recently and their smooth blackness and delicate fragility reminded me of gold leaf, equally weightless and fine. Cinders are every bit as fine and beguiling as gold; soot like darkest velvet. Everything is equal as it is. You don’t need alchemy if you see the gold everywhere.

The mask and… chest mask/sculpture(?) are foam, vellum paper, gold ink and Stuart Semple’s vantablack-like paint which is great and super matte and smells like cherry (amusingly non-goth) 

While taking the pic, I learned that hockey tape adheres to absolutely no surfaces other than hockey sticks

The contrast between the delicate, bright leafy gold and the near-void of the matte black is completely arresting. Your work is always surprising, always beautiful.