IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

Javier Martínez de Pisón

The womb-like interior of the otherworldly environment that is the H.R. Giger Museum Bar is a cavernous, skeletal structure covered by double arches of vertebrae that crisscross the vaulted ceiling of an ancient castle. The acute perceptual sensation of being in this extraordinary setting recalls the Biblical tale of Jonah and the whale, lending the feel of being literally in the belly of a fossilized, prehistoric beast. But the the “Harkonnen” chairs, with their spinal cord backs topped by pelvis bones, and the stone floor plates engraved with strange hieroglyphs all suggest that somehow you have been transported into the remains of a mutated future civilization.

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