My mouth is full of Demons
👕 Also available as a Mouth Demons T-Shirt
🎵 Hersh songs get into my head...
Lines, get stuck in my head, "My Mouth is Full of Demons" is a line I can connect with. I feel very much like my Mouth can spew Demons. People often talk about "Imagery" in songs, and I don't really understand what they mean by that. For me, a song is something I hear when I'm listening to it, I don't have imagery, I can't even hear it when I'm not listening... so it's lines that stick inside me, and this line just made me want to draw it, I made a few attempts, I hadn't been drawing very long when I first tried to capture what I wanted... This was really me learning to draw, after spending almost 50 years thinking that I couldn't. When this one happened, it was so much what I wanted it to be, its intense, and scrappy, like all my pictures, but it captures the thought... I sometimes wonder if I could see images in songs, if this is what I would have seen...
🎨 Hand-Drawn, Hand-Pulled Screen Print
It took me a while to get this picture out as I felt it needed. This is Hand-pulled with black ink for the main picture, overlaid in the corner with Gold Throwing Muses, using archival water-based ink on beautiful deep red 300gsm card, It's intended to last. all prints are supplied unframed.
💰 Affordable Original Art
These prints are probably cheaper than they should be for genuine hand-pulled screen prints, but I want to find that balance - getting my art into the world while keeping it accessible. Every Hersh purchase directly funds Kristin Hersh studio time. Every ElRat purchase supports my art and my ability to keep doing what I do.
🖤 The ElRat Paradox
I am an artist who doesn't "love" visual art. I would never go to an art gallery, never look at an art book. I know nothing of other artists, or their work. Aphantasia means I have no visual memory, and it's hard to love something you can't remember. I *LOVE* drawing, it calms my head like nothing else, and I do like the pictures I make, but I can look back, even just a couple of days in my sketchbook, and have absolutely no memory of the picture there. I only really make art for the love of making it. They are intense, and scrappy because they have to be, I can't come back to a picture because as soon as I turn away, I forget it exists. So when I start, I have to finish before I lose concentration. Because for me, drawing is the point, not the pictures. If other people like it, I consider that an honour.
🌱 The ElRat Experience
Every order ships in plastic-free packaging I usually have some extras hanging around - test prints & the like, I love to send you something a little extra in your package. I always want ElRat packages to be a little sliver of light in the chaos, I only send packages I would love to receive. All prints are supplied unframed.
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