Flower of Madness represents the third time I sampled/transformed the image of Kat Bjelland. The first time was kinderwhore.com, the second Learning to Respect Beauty. What draws me to Kat Bjelland? She possesses a true edginess. Going back to Babes in Toyland, it was always there. As the years went by it became more refined, verging on inspired madness, which can be both scary and beautiful, abstract and raw. Flower of Madness is a web animation composed of 347 frames. It lasts a shade under two and a half minutes, then loops. A high-speed Internet connection is required and I recommend using Firefox as your browser. Even with a high-speed connection, due to its dense texture, it may initially run at a jagged rate. What I have learned from previously posting deeply textured animations in the Digital Hallucinations section of Illumination Gallery is that such animations often need to play through once before running at their proper rate. I do apologize for this inconvenience, but I feel it is necessary to constantly stretch the boundaries of the web as a medium.