I built this set in my studio back in 2019. I had bought a super old priest's jacket at this antique barn somewhere in western NH that was closing their business to move down south. I used that on a bunch of branches for the body of "death", made a mask and spray painted a large dryer vent black for the neck. The model is a local actor that I've photographed a handful of times. I sometimes obsess over death so much that it's crippling. This is a visual representation of that.