Shally - Indonesia

A stunning half-body portrait (head to knee) of a pale woman with long black hair shaped into a crown of wax-dipped roses and brittle lace. Her crimson-tinged gaze pierces directly into the viewer, framed by ceremonial face paint in spiraling thorn patterns. She wears a bone-white gown marred with red handprints and stitched in spiraled sacrificial texts, with sheer panels and a corset of blood-dyed leather. She holds a scroll bound with a bloodied ribbon and sealed with bone wax. Behind her rises a towering spire of black marble, cracked and glowing within — surrounded by circling crows and violet lightning.