A GOLDEN PIT IN THE SKY
acrylic, hair, ash and gold on canvas
My partner and I painted this for Trans Cosmologies II this year and finished it this weekend after having schlepped the whole massive canvas up to Stirling on the train. It depicts the moment Elagabalus brought the baetyl of Elagabal to the Roman forum, with its intended resting place being the Elagabalium, which we have reconstructed from archaeological sketches there in the top right.










