THE TIGERS NEW STRIPES / RJ x OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE

A life size resin cast of a Siberian Tiger skull, the largest and most endangered of wild cats, forms the canvas for this collaboration with Our Exquisite Corpse onto which coloured beads have been painstakingly applied one by one into a layer of wax.

This method of hand decorating skulls forms part of peyote rituals performed by the Huichol Indian tribes of the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico, where the work was produced. The finished piece represents a contemporary clash of ancient Huichol designs rooted in tribe religion and digital artwork produced using data-moshing techniques.