Head On A plate

When I moved to Europe I started paying more attention to religious art because there was just so much of it on display. Much of it is lovely, but some is macabre. One of the motifs I found curious was beheadings, which were portrayed everywhere. There was scarcely a cathedral I visited that didn't feature art or statuary that separated noggins from necks. At the time. I was also reading postcolonial literature about the forcible spread of Christianity—the noxious, racist, colonial perversion of Christ's gospel of love and charity. I started to wonder what all these severed heads would look like from the outside. Thus, "Head On a Plate" was born... or served.