Sid Sharp

The King of the Golden Mountain

Illustration

2021

Acrylic, watercolour, graphite, and metal leaf on archival paper

24 x 42 inches

In this German fairytale, a vengeful king beheads every one of his subjects with his magic sword, and then rules over a kingdom of corpses.

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Sid Sharp

Illustration

“My thesis project The Occupant interprets the body through folk tales of magic and transformation to create an imagined world wherein our conceptions of our inner selves replace the external view.”