These images were created from a 3D scan of a garment made for Narthex Odyssey. True to the festival’s attitude of anachronistically fusing ancient with modern in a stew of magic and play, this headpiece sought to merge the current trend of overdecorated caps with my adoration for ornate shamanistic headdresses.

Antler-laden headdresses are known to have existed at least as far back as the Mesolithic, over 10,000 years ago. They have persisted into the modern age, with indigenous peoples of Siberia, such as the Evenki, using anter headdresses for shamanistic rituals.

The desire to display this object rendered out of a 3D environment was in order to emphasize the clash between the skull and the cap; certain aspects of the cap were re-modeled digitally to add to the uncanniness of the fusion of two vastly distant forms of elaborate headwear.