Throat-Box concept of mine for the Fallen Angel character for my production concept for DEVIANTE DRAWING SALON: HELLBOUND’ themed performance and figure drawing event.

As a featured guest curator, I created the narrative and characters while providing creative direction for this installment of DEVIANTE DRAWING SALON’s theme.
Exploring heavy symbolic “horror” and “camp” aesthetics around this “hellish” passion play and inspired by Clive Barker’s ‘Hellraiser’ visual language, this concept was a pentagon-shaped interactive neckpiece. A performer could unfold the hinged puzzlebox into a reversed pentacle, revealing a visceral flayed throat wound. Once opened, the hinges were designed to hold in place that the viscera could be displayed for the remainder of the performance.
A collaboration with MAX STEINER DESIGN and LUST & LEATHER, I designed the character concept, prop, and aesthetic direction.

Throat Box was fabricated by first providing a plaster mold of the model’s neck to be 3D scanned by Max Steiner and 3D printing a functional design that could sit flush to the model’s neck while closing cleanly over a prop wound.

Prop Concept: Morgan O. Shay

Prop Fabrication: Max Steiner Design

Prop Viscera: Morgan O. Shay

Harness/Leatherwork: Lust & Leather

Model: Cassidy Haley