Nekrotzar on the rocking horse

illustration for 'Le Grand Macabre'
the bawdy comic opera by György Ligeti
(based on ‘La Ballade du Grand Macabre’
by Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode)

At this point in the drama, it's almost midnight ~
the hour when the world's about to end ~
so I portrayed Nekrotzar in his 'jammies',
with a stripy night cap on his skeletal head

(A2 indian ink, 2004)