Eidola of Set – The Art of Skullflower

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.