"Black Goat of the Woods"

Dimensions peculiar; acrylic & oil on recycled wood. Fused frame consists of salvaged industrial & commercial materials, shells, animal bones, resin, putty, found objects, automotive paint, acrylics, sealant.
Concept: H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley, others

Shub-Niggurath appears repeatedly in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, his pen-pals & fan boys, usually only by name, invoked in the throes of madness or casually dropped in reference to some unsavory fertility cult. The pertinent details to be gleaned from these mentions are that Shub has somehow spawned innumerable monstrous offspring but lacks a concrete gender - possibly being multiple entities, possibly being a hermaphrodite. Brian Lumley, a later writer of the mythos, described "her" as being a symbolic representation of the outer gods' (Cthulhu & company) "cosmic miscegenation", their ability to breed with anything regardless of physics, gender, or species issues that might otherwise interfere. Game and fan-fiction writers have similarly interpreted "her" as an alien virus with collective intelligence, capable of bodily possession and mind control.
[While I easily could from this starting point, I?d rather not devolve to a discussion of HPL's paranoia, sexism, racism, xenophobia, Imperialism, etc; the man is dead; I am less stimulated by his mundane diseases and demons than his cosmic ones. I believe that contemporary writers and artists have the power if not the duty to re-envision the mythos in a manner that sloughs off the smaller minded aspects and early 20th century pseudo-sciences and grow new dimensions of horror more befitting our generations].