The Cranium Archive – Artwork Series
Catalogue of inner beauty, hosts withdrawn.
The Cranium Archive is an ongoing artistic investigation. A catalogue of inner beauty, conceived as a system rather than a collection. Not as likenesses, but as condensations. Each skull carries inner values — structural, psychological, residual. Everything else is surface.
The series approaches the skull as the most intimate portrait possible. An attempt to register what remains once appearance, expression, and performance are withdrawn. What persists is the supporting structure: memory, intention, projection. The skull as the final democratic form of portraiture.
Within ancient traditions and religious systems, the skull does not signify an end, but functions as a storage device. The headquarters of consciousness. The anatomical center of perception, memory, imagination, and dream. The basis of self-understanding as a living entity. A site for voices, for attribution, for that which refuses to remain unseen. The work operates between portrait and invocation. Between craft and procedural gesture.
The most intimate portrait possible.
The initial accessions depict the artists, Lotte Hauss and Marc Thaddaeus Suess.
Further skulls will be added to the archive. Additional portraits may be commissioned — of the living or the absent.
Accession No. CA-001
Wool, Velvet, (Acrylic Case.)
approx. 10 × 6 × 8 cm, 2025.
Classification: Field of Incantation / Mode of Transformation
Observed Qualities: Ritualised imaginative force; sustained connection between mythic resonance and embodied practice
Notes: During formation, repetitive gestures produced a measurable rhythm. The material responded to pressure with increasing density, suggesting a stabilisation of ritual intent. Structural coherence intensified as symbolic elements were embedded through manual repetition rather than design.
Accession No. CA-002
Wool, Velvet, (Acrylic Case.)
approx. 12 × 7 × 9 cm, 2025.
Classification: Register of Narrative Flux / Index of Creative Inquiry
Observed Qualities: Deep engagement with recurring archetypes; multi-layered narrative energy; traversal of thresholds between myth, ritual and cultural memory
Notes: Throughout the process, shifts in form occurred without preliminary correction. Irregularities were retained and integrated, resulting in a structure that accumulated layers rather than resolving them. Narrative continuity emerged through sustained manipulation rather than predetermined sequence.
