The Freshwater Five – In a continuing series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday, I have reached out to others for them to share with me the things that form their everyday. These are the things that they might reach for in different times of the day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘The Freshwater Five – this is a slight change on the second series and is focussed on a probable miscarriage of justice and how the ordinary and everyday of four fishermen and their friend, from the Isle of Wight, were accused and convicted of conspiracy to import cocaine worth £53m in May 2010. The five men were sentenced to a total of 104 years for what some people are saying is excessive for the supposed role of “just being couriers”.

The Freshwater Five

‘Ian Fleming’s Mar-Tinny’ – I’m purposefully not sharing the identities of those that shared their sometimes very personal stories with me; and so, ‘Ian Fleming’ would often turn to alcohol as a way to navigate the world when anxiety kicks in. Vodka is often used as it is something that can’t usually be smelled on the breath and the person that confided this story to me told me they couldn’t face the world without a moderate dose of cocktails.

Ian Fleming’s Mar-Tinny

‘Gertrude Stein’s Coffee‘ – I’m purposefully not sharing the identities of those that shared their sometimes very personal stories with me. Stein said “Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup”.

Gertrude Stein’s Coffee

The Pleasure Seeker is entirely devoted to the memory of stolen moments.

The Pleasure Seeker

‘Leopold Bloom’s Breakfast of Kidneys ’ – in this series I’m purposefully not sharing the identities of those that shared their sometimes very personal stories with me; and so, ‘Bloom’s Kidneys’ arose from the childhood of the person who shared this one. 
 
Every Sunday they would go to their grandma’s house for Sunday roast and always emanating from the kitchen was the constant smell of cooked offal from the traditional Sunday breakfast that had been eaten earlier; “and it was as though the wood-chip wallpaper itself was being purposefully peeled back so more of the smell could be stored”. 
 
The comparison with Joyce’s character, Leopold Bloom with “which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine”, was so acute that whenever this person heard the name ‘Bloom’ they would instantly smell the kitchen of their grandma – a post-war ‘nothing-gets-wasted’ woman from the working class inner-city housing estate of Hyson Green in Nottingham, England.

Leopold Bloom’s Breakfast of Kidneys

Classic Hitch – In a continuing series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday, I have reached out to others for them to share with me the things that form their everyday. These are the things that they might reach for in different times of the day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Classic Hitch‘ – I’m purposefully not sharing the identities of those that shared their sometimes very personal stories with me. We know that writers mine their friends and family for story and character ideas but did you know painters do it too? 
 
This oil painting is after a great director/producer I used to work with, in my time as a documentary cinematographer, who had a great knowledge of and appreciation for the work of Alfred Hitchcock.

Classic Hitch

Mrs Newburyport’s Sticky Toffee Cupcake With Salted Caramel Buttercream – In a continuing series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Mrs Newburyport’s Sticky Toffee Cupcake With Salted Caramel Buttercream’ – This is the 21stC update to the old classic cupcake. Enjoy.

Mrs Newburyport’s Sticky Toffee Cupcake With Salted Caramel

‘Anna’s Pavlova’ – I’m purposefully not sharing the identities of those that shared their sometimes very personal stories with me; and so, ‘Anna’s’ relationship with food began early in her life as she used it for comfort. 
 
She finds it extremely difficult around Christmas time to not indulge in the many offerings of food so freely available and sees it as a sign of a personal victory that she can now say no and truly understands what it means to sometimes say ‘yes’. That yes can be found attached to this memory-inducing favourite, the pavlova. 
 
Acrylic on museum quality stretched canvas 
 
Signed on the reverse and comes with a hologramed certificate of authenticity

Anna’s Pavlova

The Mad Hatter’s Teapot too – In a continuing series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday, I have reached out to others for them to share with me the things that form their everyday. 
 
These are the things that they might reach for in different times of the day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further thought, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘The Mad Hatter’s Teapot too’ – I’m purposefully not sharing the identities of those that shared their sometimes very personal stories with me; and so, ‘The Mad Hatter’s Teapot’ came from another artist who told me that she always begins her painting day with tea-time and that this is her favourite teapot. 
 
The tea settles her, keeps her grounded, and it feels like meditation as she thinks about how to progress with her painting; t

The Mad Hatter’s Teapot

Maille Dijon Mustard – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Maille Dijon Mustard’ – I remember sitting in the frame of a window opposite a baker on a cobbled street in Paris and tearing chunks from fresh baguettes and dipping it in a very large pot of this mustard while watching the world go buy. Another quotidian linked to memory. I was 19.

Maille Dijon mustard

Lunch, ruined – Campbell’s Soup – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Lunch, ruined – Campbell’s Soup’ – basically, I just wanted to see if I could.

Lunch, ruined – Campbell’s soup

Our Mate Marmite – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Our Mate Marmite’ – due to a dietary choice in the UK some years ago I had to grow to love Marmite. It wasn’t easy. Now though it does remind me of that time and so forms a focus for memory. And, like memories, I don’t need to access it ‘everyday’ as the series suggests but instead about once a month. On hot toast. With lots, and lots, of butter.

Our mate Marmite

Morning Coffee with Alfred Meakin – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Morning Coffee with Alfred Meakin’ – this is Australia. Enough said.

Morning coffee with Alfred Meakin

Meds – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Meds’ is another that I need every. Single. Day. An operation just under two years ago coupled with a late diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes has left my body with multiple points of neuropathic pain. I’ve lived my entire life without the need for health care aside from an appendectomy 25 years ago. I now cannot survive without six forms of pain medication.

Meds

Organic Australian Flour – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Organic Australian Flour’ plus milk plus eggs plus butter plus sugar. Because why should we deprive ourselves of those things in our life that makes us feel?

Organic Australian flour

Full Cream Organic Milk – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Full Cream Organic Milk’ combined with flour and eggs. And butter. Plus sugar.

Full cream organic milk

Shoes, after Vincent (or, Vincent’s Vans) – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Shoes, after Vincent (or, Vincent’s Vans)’ – Vans are the only shoe I wear. Period. And so I wanted to feature them as one of my quotidian on the basis that I’ve walked many miles in Vans.

Shoes, after Vincent (or, Vincent’s Vans)

Free-Range Organic Eggs – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Free-Range Organic Eggs ‘ – is there anything that describes the basis of life other than this? And think of all the things you can do with them!!

Free-Range Organic Eggs

Maldon Sea Salt – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Maldon Sea Salt’ is something that I add to everything I eat and so forms a part of my body that is uniquely linked to memory as well as physicality of my attachment to Europe. I don’t go anywhere without it.

Maldon sea salt

Vodka – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Vodka’ is a base spirit and so forms, in part, the creation of all cocktails. I love cocktails and I love champagne so while I can forego the necessary ‘everyday’ alcohol still forms a part of my humanity as it does for nearly everyone else.

Absolut vodka

Three Days Without Water – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Three Days Without Water’ – it goes without saying that we need water to survive but there is a further concept that goes, 3 minutes, 3 days, 3 weeks. Each is how long the human body, on average, can survive for without their respective ingests: 3 minutes without oxygen; 3 days without water; 3 weeks without food. As someone that has spent decades living and working in mountainous regions, water (and access

Three Days Without Water

Colman’s Mustard – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Colman’s Mustard’ – I’d travel the world for this mustard. Perfect on pork pies it is comparable to wasabi.

Colman’s mustard

Organic Tea for Three – In the first series of an ongoing relationship with the ordinary and everyday objects in our shared or isolated lives, I’m encouraging interaction with some of the objects that define me as an individual. These are the things that I might reach for in different times of my day yet do so automatically, without much thought. For example, ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ goes on pretty much everything I eat which, when given further analysis, acts in some way as my maintained and physical connection to Europe – the salt from the sea is an essential part of my physicality. 
 
‘Organic Tea for Three’ is what I need every. Single. Day. In order to prepare myself for the world – it helps me focus away from sleep and towards action.

Organic tea for three

One of 20 pieces created exclusively for Saatchi Art's premiere NFT collection 'The Other Avatars'

Vincent #70

Vincent #152

Vincent #775

Vincent #625

Vincent #834

Vincent #988

Vincent #1130

Vincent #854

Vincent #534

Vincent #2129

Vincent #1315

Vincent #1578

Vincent #1848

Vincent #1285

Vincent #2071

Vincent #2484

Vincent #2234

Vincent #1024

Vincent #1808

Vincent #1970

A compilation video of all 20 of my work for Saatchi's The Other Avatars project

TOA Video

A signed and limited edition (6) print of one of the 20 pieces created exclusively for Saatchi Art's premiere NFT project 'The Other Avatars' (TOA) 
 
Holders of my NFTS can access one of the prints with a 20% discount while any prints are still available to collect using the link here. 
 
To claim the discount, send me an offer (via the print site) which is 20% less than the current purchase price and it will be accepted once proof of ownership of an NFT is sent via one of my social media channels (Twitter/Insta/FB) which are all @stevemunroart

Vincent #70 signed print

Vincent #625 signed print

Vincent #834 signed print

Vincent #152 signed print

Vincent #854 signed print

Vincent #988 signed print

Vincent #534 signed print

Vincent #1285 signed print

Vincent #1808 signed print

Vincent #1130 signed print

Vincent #1315 signed print

Vincent #775 signed print

Vincent #2071 signed print

Vincent #1970 signed print

Vincent #2129 signed print

Vincent #1578 signed print

Vincent #1848 signed print

Vincent #2234 signed print

Vincent #1024 signed print

Vincent #2484 signed print

Irish. 
 
Death: 03 November 1324. 
 
The first person in European history to be executed for the 'crime' of heresy. 
 
Tortured multiple times to elicit a confession, she was ultimately burned alive. 
 
This NFT has SOUND, please unmute the preview. 
 
This piece was created first by instructing AI to create a new image after several other images were fed into the intelligence. 
 
After that, deep machine learning was used to give 3 dimensions to the 2d image; a moving head model was used to create the AI animated image. 
 
The voice, then, was generated by machine learning with instructions to use a slight Swiss accent in the interior monologue of Petronilla; the voice is text to speech. 
 
I then edited the whole piece adding Foley and music to the sound mix. 
 
To be clear, the subject in this video has never existed; Petronilla de Meath, however, did; and this video aims to give a voice, a face, and mannerisms, to one brutally executed by judicial murder.

Petronilla de Meath

The first person recorded to have been executed for witchcraft in the American colonies; Connecticut Colony, hanged, May 26, 1647. 
 
This NFT has SOUND, please unmute the preview. 
 
This piece was created first by instructing AI to create a new image after several other images were fed into the intelligence. 
 
After that, deep machine learning was used to give 3 dimensions to the 2d image; a moving head model was used to create the AI animated image. 
 
The voice, then, was generated by machine learning with instructions to use a colonial British accent in the interior monologue of Alse; the voice is text to speech. 
 
I then edited the whole piece adding Foley and music to the sound mix. 
 
To be clear, the literal subject in this video has never existed; Alse Young, however, did; and this video aims to give a voice, a face, and mannerisms to one brutally executed by unjust means. 
 
She was 32.

Alse Young

Death: 13 June 1782 
One of the last to be executed in Europe for witchcraft 
Executed by decapitation 
 
This NFT has SOUND, please unmute the preview! 
This piece was created first by instructing AI to create a new image after several other images were fed into the intelligence. 
 
After that, deep machine learning was used to give 3 dimensions to the 2d image; a moving head model was used to create the AI animated image 
 
The voice, then, was generated by machine learning with instructions to use a slight Swiss accent in the interior monologue of Anna; the voice is text to speech 
 
I then edited the whole piece adding Foley and music to the sound mix 
 
To be clear, the person in this video has never existed; Anna Göldi, however, did; and this video aims to give a voice, a face, and mannerisms, to one brutally executed by judicial murder

Anna Göldi

Accused of being a witch; burned to death. Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Ama Hemmah

Burned to death, Prussian Poland, 1811 Barbara is considered to have been the last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe. Although the accusations of witchcraft were listed in her case, witchcraft was not a criminal offense in Prussia at the time One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Barbara Zdunk

The last person officially executed for witchcraft in Denmark; beheaded, 1693 One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Anne Palles

"I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit"

Elena

Elizabeth Clarke was the first woman persecuted by the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins; hanged. Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Elizabeth Clarke

Executed for witchcraft, Scotland, 29 December 1572 Janet was alleged to have predicted the death of Regent Moray who was assassinated in January 1570, and her accusation was the first to be made in connection with a political conspiracy She told her interrogators that she made contact with the supernatural world at a well on the south side of Arthur's Seat, a hill in Edinburgh There she conjured spirits who would help her heal others. Sometimes she worked cures by washing the patient's shirt at the well at St Leonards She was condemned as: "ane wyss woman that culd mend diverss seikness and bairnis that are tane away with fairyie men and wemen" (a wise woman that could heal diverse illnesses and children taken away by fairy men and women) One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Janet Boyman

One of the four women of the Paisley Witches In 1697 Paisley was the last town in western Europe to conduct a mass execution for witchcraft The Paisley witches, also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland in 1697. Eleven-year-old Christian Shaw, daughter of the Laird of Bargarran, complained of being tormented by some local witches; they included one of her family's servants, Catherine Campbell, whom she had reported to her mother for stealing a pint of milk Seven people – Catherine Campbell, Margaret Lang, Margaret Fulton (pictured), and Agnes Naismith along with John Lyndsay (11), his brother James Lyndsay (14), and James Reid – were found guilty of having bewitched Shaw and were condemned to death James Reid subsequently committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell, the others were hanged and then burned on the Gallow Green in Paisley on 10 June 1697, the last mass execution for witchcraft in weste

Margaret Fulton

Burnt at the stake as part of the Islandmagee witch trial, Ireleand, 1710 Laurien was one of the eight women that Mary Dunbar claimed were the witches that had attacked her in spectral form. She was found guilty of Witchcraft along with the seven other women Records during this time were lost during the Irish Civil War when the Public Records Office were burned; because of this exact records of what happened to Mary Dunbar and the eight women convicted were lost One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Laurien Magee

Burned to death, Denmark 1641 The Danish king, Christian IV of Denmark, had Maren brought to Copenhagen and tortured her, despite the fact that the law forbade torture of prisoners before they were judged The torture made her admit guilt (to an accusation of witchcraft from her husband's commercial competitor, a poor tailor) and accuse a number of other people as witches The judgement was: "Because Maren Spliid personally and here before the court as well as in earlier confessions, said that she had used sorcery, and thereby misused the holy sacrament of communion, we found her as a sorceress, and on her life suffer fire and stake" In Denmark, witches were often burned alive at the stake The day after the verdict, Maren was executed She was given a half pint of mead to steady herself with and a bag of gunpowder on her back to make the death quicker Then she was tied to a ladder, and the ladder was thrown into the fire There is now a memorial plaque to her in Ribe, Denmark; more informa

Maren Spliid

Accused of witchcraft by King James V; burned to death Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Janet Douglas - Lady Glamis

Last British person to be executed for sorcery; burned to death, Great Britain, 1727 Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Janet Horne

Burned to death, Scotland, 1698 Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Elspeth McEwen

Anna Göldi (also Anna Göldin or Anna Goeldin, 24 October 1734 – 13 June 1782) was an 18th-century Swiss woman who was one of the last persons to be executed in Europe for witchcraft. Anna, who was executed by decapitation, has been called the "last witch" in Switzerland On 9 February 1782, Göldi was arrested and, under torture, admitted to entering into a pact with the Devil who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced to execution by decapitation Anna was officially charged with "poisoning" rather than witchcraft even though contemporary law did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning The sentence was described at the time by historian August Ludwig von Schlözer as "judicial murder" (the murder of an innocent, deliberately, and with all the pomp of holy Justice) and on 20 September 2007, the Swiss parliament decided to acknowledge Anna Göldi's case as a miscarriage of justice. Fritz Schiesser, as the repre

The first person recorded to have been executed for witchcraft in the American colonies; Connecticut Colony, hanged, 1647 One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

One of the four women of the Paisley Witches In 1697 Paisley was the last town in western Europe to conduct a mass execution for witchcraft The Paisley witches, also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland in 1697. Eleven-year-old Christian Shaw, daughter of the Laird of Bargarran, complained of being tormented by some local witches; they included one of her family's servants, Catherine Campbell, whom she had reported to her mother for stealing a pint of milk Seven people – Catherine Campbell, Margaret Lang, Margaret Fulton, and Agnes Naismith (pictured) along with John Lyndsay (11), his brother James Lyndsay (14), and James Reid – were found guilty of having bewitched Shaw and were condemned to death James Reid subsequently committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell, the others were hanged and then burned on the Gallow Green in Paisley on 10 June 1697, the last mass execution for witchcraft in weste

Agnes Naismith

Accused and convicted of witchcraft to produce medicines and potions to attract men, Portuguese Brazil, 1798 Maria was known for her great knowledge of medicinal herbs, which she used to manufacture medicine for use in her work as a herbalist physician. She eventually came into conflict with a priest, Father Luis, who was opposed to Maria's practice of herbal medicine Father Luis accused her of heresy and witchcraft and she was put on trial in accordance with the Portuguese law against witchcraft Judged guilty as charged, she was executed by burning One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Maria da Conceição

Confessed to having flown on the back of a demon; burned to death, Papal States, 1428 Matteuccia was a nun and alleged Italian witch, known as the "Witch of Ripabianca" after the village where she lived Accused of being a prostitute, having committed desecration with other women, and of the selling of love potions since 1426, she was put on trial in Todi in 1428 She confessed to having sold medicine and of having flown to a tree in the shape of a fly on the back of a demon after having smeared herself with an ointment made of the blood of new-born children Matteuccia was judged guilty of sorcery and sentenced to be burned at the stake Her case was one of the earliest witch trials in Europe, and perhaps the first case where a witch is mentioned flying in the air One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Matteuccia de Francesco

The first woman executed for witchcraft in England; hanged. Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Agnes Waterhouse

One of the four women of the Paisley Witches In 1697 Paisley was the last town in western Europe to conduct a mass execution for witchcraft The Paisley witches, also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland in 1697. Eleven-year-old Christian Shaw, daughter of the Laird of Bargarran, complained of being tormented by some local witches; they included one of her family's servants, Catherine Campbell, whom she had reported to her mother for stealing a pint of milk Seven people – Catherine Campbell, Margaret Lang (pictured), Margaret Fulton, and Agnes Naismith along with John Lyndsay (11), his brother James Lyndsay (14), and James Reid – were found guilty of having bewitched Shaw and were condemned to death James Reid subsequently committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell, the others were hanged and then burned on the Gallow Green in Paisley on 10 June 1697, the last mass execution for witchcraft in weste

Margaret Lang

One of the last to be executed for witchcraft in Germany; beheaded followed by burning, June 1749 Renata confessed to a Benedictine confessor that she was a Satanist and witch; that in 1687, at the age of seven, she had sworn herself to Satan and, at twelve, had become a prostitute and learned magic and to mix poisons In 1694, Maria was baptized at a black mass, and in 1699, was inducted in the convent of Unter-Zell in Bavaria; it was claimed she entered entirely to make strife amongst the "brides of Christ" Maria claimed to be a skilled chemist and preferred the strong poison Aqua Tofana developed by Giulia Tofana in Naples She said she was remorseful, but the church still judged her guilty of sorcery, heresy, witchcraft, apostasy, and Satanism Maria was then turned over to the secular authorities to be executed One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau

Mary was an English herbalist who was accused of, and executed for, witchcraft in 1603 following the death of a young child named William Witham to whom she had administered a herbal mixture many years earlier The location and method of her execution are unclear; she was either hanged in York after her trial or burnt at the stake near Castleford Mary's ghost is said to haunt the woods near Pannal Hill, near Castleford. The suggestion is that if someone sees her ghost, which will be leading a horse, then someone close to them will die More information about Mary can be found here: https://allerton-bywater-online.webs.com/marypanel.htm One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Mary Pannal

Sex worker, was accused by popular belief to bewitch men; burned to death, Portuguese Brazil 1692 Mima immigrated from France to the Portuguese colony of Brazil with her spouse, René Renard, and settled in São Paulo She was described as beautiful, and attracted the attention of men. Eventually, her spouse was murdered by one of the men who was in love with her and, destitute, she was forced to turn to sex work to support herself Women in the city accused her of enchanting her clients with magic. When two of her married clients came in to a fight, during which one of them murdered the other, the wives of her clients reported Mima to the parish priest for having enchanted men by the use of witchcraft She was judged guilty as charged and executed in public by being burnt alive One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Mima Renard

Decapitated and burned on December 30, 1663. Anna was one of the last witches to be executed in Braunschweig, Germany and the complete account of her trial still exists. She is better known as Tempel Anneke and you can find records of the trial documents here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tthfn One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Anna Roleffes

Hanged during the Salem witch trials (her children had claimed she was a witch while undergoing torture which included being hung by the heels until the blood was ready to come out of their noses); Massachusetts Bay Colony, 19 August 1692 In refusing to submit to the unanimous wishes of the male judges, ministers and politicians who gave legitimacy to her accusation of hysteria, she stood up to male authority figures wielding not only physical power, but spiritual authority and she spoke her mind Her actions against the court did not save her as she, another woman and four men were found guilty for witchcraft and sentenced to death by hanging on 5 August 1692 On 19 August 1692, Martha was taken in the back of a cart to Gallows Hill in Salem. Cheering crowds lined the streets and gathered at the scaffold to witness the hanging of Martha and the four men She never relented as, even from the scaffold, her voice was heard asserting her innocence refusing to confess to "a falsehood so filth

Martha Carrier

The maidservant of Dame Alice Kyteler - a fourteenth century Hiberno-Norman noblewoman. After the death of Kyteler's fourth husband, Kyteler was accused of practicing witchcraft and Petronilla was charged with being one of her accomplices. Petronilla was tortured and forced to proclaim that she and Kyteler were guilty of witchcraft. Kyteler fled to save her life, and Petronilla was then flogged and eventually burnt at the stake on 3 November 1324, in Kilkenny, Ireland. Hers was the first known case in Ireland or Great Britain of death by fire for the crime of heresy One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Murdered by an unruly mob during a "trial by ducking", England, c1690 Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Ruth Osborne

Hanged during Pendle witches hunt, England, 1612 Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Alice Nutter

Accused of witchcraft during the Spanish Inquisition, Narbona was burned alive at the stake on 12 February 1498 Narbona belonged to a family that practiced healing in her rural community using medicinal plants and substances and scoffed at religious prayer as a source of healing. The mockery formed the base of her regional neighbours accusations of witchcraft The Inquisition's Holy Office, located in the Aljafería Palace in Aragon's capital city of Zaragoza, had Narbona arrested with other women accused of witchcraft and brought to the city There, allegations were levelled at her by her neighbours. One accused her of giving poisonous grapes to his wife, who "died shortly after very suffering and with great passions in her womb" Another said she and a company of other witches killed his daughter. Yet another testified to the death of a neighbour and said that Narbona had also bewitched the accuser so she could not have children On 12 February 1498, Narbona was convicted and burned at th

Narbona Dacal

One of the four women of the Paisley Witches In 1697 Paisley was the last town in western Europe to conduct a mass execution for witchcraft The Paisley witches, also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland in 1697. Eleven-year-old Christian Shaw, daughter of the Laird of Bargarran, complained of being tormented by some local witches; they included one of her family's servants, Catherine Campbell, whom she had reported to her mother for stealing a pint of milk Seven people – Catherine Campbell(pictured), Margaret Lang, Margaret Fulton, and Agnes Naismith along with John Lyndsay (11), his brother James Lyndsay (14), and James Reid – were found guilty of having bewitched Shaw and were condemned to death James Reid subsequently committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell, the others were hanged and then burned on the Gallow Green in Paisley on 10 June 1697, the last mass execution for witchcraft

Catherine Campbell

Noblewoman who confessed to cursing the marital bed of a rival; beheaded, Denmark-Norway, 26 June 1621 Christence is one of the most well known victims of the witch hunt in Denmark, and one of few members of the nobility to have been executed for sorcery in Scandinavia, and the only one in Denmark One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Christence Kruckow

One of a series of AI art horror portraits

Nadja

Confessed to witchcraft and hanged, England, c1575 Part of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches

Ursula Kemp

Burned alive by the Papal States in 1428 
 
Her case was one of the earliest witch trials in Europe, and perhaps the first case where a witch is mentioned flying in the air. 
 
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This piece was created first by instructing AI to create a new image after several other images were fed into the intelligence. 
 
After that, deep machine learning was used to give 3 dimensions to the 2d image; a moving head model was used to create the AI animated image. 
 
The voice was generated by neural text-to-speech engines with instructions to use an Italian female speaking in English. 
 
I then edited the whole piece adding Foley and music to the sound mix. 
 
To be clear, the literal subject in this video has never existed; Matteuccia de Francesco, however, did; and this video aims to give a voice, a face, and mannerisms to one brutally executed by unjust means.

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