Cthulhu was a monstrous being created by horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft; the creature first appears in the short story, Call of Cthulhu published in Weird Tales in 1928. The story describes the creature as; "… an octopus a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings."Cthulhu, was central to a mythos that Lovecraft had created in his stories, describing creatures known as The Great Old Ones, that once inhabited the earth and were waiting for the time to take over once more; Cthulhu lay slumbering in a sunken city called R’lyeh.
This pendant depicts the head of Cthulhu emerging from his watery prison, on the reverse is a couplet from The Necronomicon, a fabled grimoire that is often referred to in Lovecraft’s stories,
‘That which is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die’
I was really into H.P. Lovecraft stories and the whole Cthulhu mythos; and judging by a quick Google image search, I'm not the only one! It is quite amusing to see all the various sculptures, toys, artwork etc of Cthulhu.
With this pendant, I hand sculpted the head using Skulpey clay from which a mould was made then cast it in resin and painted. It was then set into a resin square, with glass beads for 'bubbles'.
