Every Man Wears a Head on his Shoulder IV
These two etchings belong to a series of four prints inspired by Penderecki’s opera The Devils of Loudon (based on John Whiting’s dramatisation of the book by Aldous Huxley). The title comes from a remark in the opera about the head of a criminal which a surgeon and chemist contrived to buy after the body had been cut down from the gallows. The macabre story of political corruption in France in the 1630s echoes the corruption which the artist encountered in her native country.
