Bataille Is Dead (The Shelling of Reims): July 7th, 2024 "Bataille’s Granero was a somnambulist like Cesare, a figure that is held simultaneously between life and death. The real Manuel Granero died on the 7th of May, 1922 when his eyes were gouged out by the bull. But for Bataille, who was only able to get a distant view of Granero’s death, the young bullfighter became a mangled idol who manifested the excesses of being..." This illustration alongside an assortment of other Bataille-inspired sketches are featured in the accompanying booklet for my upcoming industrial noise album, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. The album will be coming out this Saturday on the 10th on my Bandcamp and YouTube.