This is the second study for the Ignis Sacer title piece. This drawing expands on the image at the center of the original piece, the part that looks like a band logo and says "Ignis Sacer", Latin for "holy fire", in a kind of metal font. The logo is an ambigram, that is, it can be read the exact same when it is flipped upside down. The entire drawing is an ambigram, too.There's also a snippet of Durer's St. Anthony, and a lot of Current 93 lyrics in the background, which largely summarize the ineffectiveness of prayer in curing off plague.
The best part, I feel, is the drawing of my naked self fighting a serpent representing worldly evil. That part is based on a book cover made by Eric Gill. Gill is a controversial, but undeniably talented engraver/printer/typographer (ugh) whose work I discovered at a Jesuit museum in Chicago.
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Rad, rad, rad!
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