From the Anglo Saxon period of art right through the middle ages hell is imagined as a gaping mouth, such as a mouth that might belong to a great beast, or a sea creature. It is dark, cavernous, ever hungry. Hellmouth is a detached organ, obeying a reflex action, flesh that blindly pursues its bodily function even though it is separated from an active body. The mouth is engorged chomping away locked in its own hell of eternal consumption, unsatiated, insatiable. It is a body unravelled, grotesque and monstrous. It is a body part stripped of subjectivity, as you will be so.