Eidola of Set – The Art of Skullflower
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Eidola of Set is a hardcover artbook by Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies of Skullflower, published by Timeless Edition in 2020. The book gathers drawings, paintings, sculpture, found objects, and texts — structured around the invocation of the Egyptian god Set — into a self-contained visual work of 140 pages at 18.5 × 26 cm.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 140
- Size: 18.5 × 26 cm
- Publisher: Timeless Edition, 2020
- Language: English
- Edition: English edition
Eidola of Set – The Art of Skullflower
Eidola of Set is a hardcover artbook published by Timeless Edition in 2020, gathering the visual work of Matthew Bower & Samantha Davies of Skullflower. Across 140 pages, the book moves through drawings, paintings, sculpture, found objects, and text, structured around the invocation and evocation of the Egyptian god Set. Texts are contributed by David Wood and Samantha Davies.
About the Book
Set occupies the symbolic centre of this publication — not as a subject to be explained, but as a force to be invoked. The material accumulates through repetition: images return, motifs recur, pressure builds. The logic is closer to ritual than to retrospective.
The range of media is deliberate. Drawings sit alongside paintings, sculpture, and found objects; text enters not as commentary but as another register of the same field. Nothing functions as illustration. The book operates as a self-contained visual body of work, dense and concentrated in a way that recorded sound cannot be.
For readers drawn to Artbooks in the underground tradition, or to publications at the intersection of Music Books & Sound Culture and visual practice, this publication occupies a precise position: neither band documentation nor supplementary merchandise, but a primary visual work in its own right.
Matthew Bower & Samantha Davies
Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies work together within Skullflower, a long-running British underground noise-rock project. Their collaboration in Eidola of Set shifts that context from sound to image entirely — drawing, painting, sculpture, and found objects take the place of musical form rather than serving as ancillary material.
The result is not supplementary artwork but a self-contained visual body of work with its own symbolic pressure. David Wood contributes texts that operate within the same symbolic register as the images, extending the book's internal logic rather than explaining it.
Year: 2020
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 140
Dimensions: 18.5 × 26 cm
Weight: 1.0 kg
Language: English
ISBN: 979-10-96037-19-3
Edition: English edition
Publisher / Manufacturer:
Timeless Edition
Country of origin:
France
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Kirill Korchemkin
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