Feb 10th Research and exhibition submission

I looked into the pointy conical hat - which wasn't actually associated with witches until the 1600's after Salem, when Cotton Mather'as book first depicted a witch with a pointy hat in a print from a woodcutting. But this wasn't necessarily black and white propaganda- (He was a clergy man that believed in the devil but also a scientist - he backed the witch trials and then recanted) 

His book started a language around witches and pointy hats but he also brought about conversations  - that killing innocent people was actually in the devils' interests and the justice that they were seeking in the witch trials was misinformed. Article  

I already know that the devils image was evolved from a pagan god.  It's interesting to piece this visual language together. A stark contradiction to the pious heavenly images of Mary and Christ. How do they operate together? Can I blur something so polar opposite to create new images? - What would that do?

Did a bit of tagging on ArtUK looking at works with witches - I'm interested in how many witches are depicted in fine art and how.  

 

 

Posted my submission for A quiet blue wall to the gallery in Brighton for the physical exhibition. 

Spent some time discussing fundraising and sharing information - steering people to co-ordinate and record degree show activity so that we can make some movement and everyones informed.

Insta is up, the poster is under development, there are dates and donations being confirmed and we have costings for catalogues.. things are starting to move :)