Pineapple of Anguish

“Pineapple of Anguish”
9”x3”. Sterling Silver. 2013
Cast and fabricated components

Based on a reference to a torture device originally designed by Capitaine Gaucherou Palioly ,a French villain of the 17th century. I upgraded the concept to represent present-day torture utilized by the U.S. in the first Iraqi Golf War by elements of Bush/Cheney’s Special Ops soldiers at Dark Sites used to torture humans. It’s an actual working model of the original format that I have decorated with a ring depicting Utah Raptors slaughtering helpless cherubs.