Inspired by a woodcut from 1720 that depicted Elizabeth Styles’ confession of her witchcraft in 1664. She confessed that about ten years since, the Devil appeared to her in the shape of a handsome man, and then of a black dog. He promised her money and that she would live gallantly and have the pleasure of the world for 12 years if she signed his paper in her blood and give her soul to him, agreeing to observe his laws and allow him to suck her blood.
Beckit draws the Devil in the form of a handsome man in a modern kitchen in her whimsigoth aesthetic. The large bee in the original woodcut is referenced little golden bees the cupboard and drawer handles throughout the kitchen.
