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The skull on its thorax, and subsequent literary associations with the supernatural and evil have fostered superstitious fear and bad omens on the death's-head hawkmoth. Of the genus 'Acherontia', its species names 'atropos', 'lachesis' and 'styx' are all from Greek myth and related to death. Sharing a tawny colour palette, the everlasting properties of human hair, make it an appropriate medium to capture one, albeit ten times larger. (2017) felted human hair: 520 x 1050 x 10 mm