Survey and the Cultish sculpture
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:52:14 AM
I crafted the Australian version of Nyarlathotep, like I did the perverted Idol for Kenya. I didn't use Aboriginal material as inspiration even since the statue in Masks of Nyarlathotep is supposed to be an Aboriginal product, but I've made my interpretation of a Nyarlathotep from the Australian waste land as if it was an wooden miniature of the original.. . Of course, it 's a pastiche of an imaginary-ethnic statuette creation and does not pretend to be anything other than a pastiche... I used pentagones because it's not a geometric pattern that is used in Aboriginal art.
I hope will be convincing in your eyes.
Description in the book is as follows :
p464: "Looking down, everyone sees that the weak, softwood crate has splintered, revealing the contents: a grotesque wooden idol about three feet high, seemingly of Aboriginal Australian manufacture, and covered with white-painted, geometric lines. The foul idol is humanoid, without hair, and with strange, round, thick whiskers like tentacles. The creature’s hands and feet end in flipper-like appendages. The eyes are round, with jagged facets, and have a cruel expression "
Here is it:
It's 18cm heigh. I will cast it and paint it like this prototype, like it is carved in a piece of wood, covered by a sticky black material and painted with white chalk.
How do you like it?
If you do, You would be able to add it €85 on your backerkit survey.
Cheers !
Delphes
ps : I got back in touch with Nevil Kingston-Brownone of the author of the Masks Companion, who wrote additional background for some of the Australian items we propose.. More information at the next update !