In this limited edition silkscreen print james bates has taken the simple iconic image of a sombre skull and broken it down into a microcosm of activity and imagery the idea is that the closer you look the more you see and what you see is not always what you get from such a simple image a whole society of abstracted creatures and map like worlds emerge within the silver skull a city like patterned world of characters appears the print is created by painstakingly drawing each individual s