The Constant Fella #666 (2023) is one work from Evil Biscuit’s The Constant Fella (subtitled “1983–2023”), the project that introduced the Crucifella icon and provided the bridge from Mifella into the Drifella trilogy.
Close looking
The picture is a tall portrait centred on three tightly stacked figures, foregrounded against a smeared red-and-white backdrop that suggests fire or paint without committing to either. Top left: a pixel-art skull in white with one cyan eye, lifted directly from an early-2010s indie-game palette, tagged across the upper edge with a graffiti scrawl that reads c drip. Centre: a pale-pink doll-like figure with green eyes and a single tear, holding a flat brown cardboard cutout of a roped, stick-armed character — the Crucifella cipher in its earliest form, rendered as taped paper rather than as paint, sitting forward on the picture-plane as a literal pasted element. Right: a stack of two cartoon caps — one labeled FBI, one labeled HODL — sitting on a yellow-haired character whose face is a child’s marker drawing of a soccer-ball head, holding a chunky pixel-orange laser gun toward the floor. Across the bottom edge a flat red rectangle, lettered FREE in white serif, finishes the composition like a sticker pasted across the picture’s mouth. Reads first: the FREE bar, then the stack of caps. Reads last: the cardboard Crucifella in the centre, easy to miss, doing the lineage work the rest of the picture is loud enough to distract from — the Crucifella as cipher is the load-bearing element the whole composition is stacked around.
See also
- Evil Biscuit — the artist
- Drifella III — the trilogy this work seeds
- Mifella — the lore-figure the cardboard cutout names
- PNG-layer compositing — the device that lets the skull and the gun share one plane