Joan Sacchetti

“Come for a Stabbing!”

— Joan Sacchetti

Joan hales from Pennsylvania trained for Commercial Advertising Arts at the ripe old age of 15. After which they began pursuing the fine art of stabbing people with crafty ink-lined needles. Joan was dragged into the style of Horror as a child by the evil Santa, whose crusty yellow lips, flaking patchy skin and thinning hair left an indelible mark. Since then the grotesque and macabre just calls.

“My dad always told me I was born from a spotted gorilla egg.”

— Joan Sacchetti

Faith’s Fantastic Fabrications

  • Ophelia

    Ophelia

    Carried upon your shoulders

    the weight of the world

    dragging cement-like boulders

    whilst ahead a twirl

    weaving a garden through the hurt and deception

    leading the innocent heart into great depression

    a moment alive once, a moment of loss

    the body of earth, consumed the lost

    a moment of time, a moment to stair, watch the evil consequence of grief, play unfair.

  • Penny the spider

    Penny the spider

    Penny the Spider Lady is a man eater. She likes to wrap the corpses of her victims in her web. Take their eyeball and wear them on her abdomen.

  • Not your average middle school from dissection

    Not your average middle school from dissection

    How was your experience dissecting frogs in science class. Did it wake up with an eyeball in its throat? This one did, but only after its torso was lacerated revealing a series of menacing teeth.

  • When the earth takes over (in progress)

    When the earth takes over (in progress)

    Centered on the back is a decorative and bejeweled sword

    An elegant bejeweled sword mounted centerpiece on the back and flanked by dragon wings in the process of being consumed by Nature. This beautiful piece is still a work in progress.

  • Dangerous Dancing Bats

    Dangerous Dancing Bats

    These batty beauties dance up the collectors arms with pristine contrast and fantastic balance of black. Joan utilizes dots and spider webs to maximize the upward rhythm of the piece and achieve a supreme use of space.

  • Eyeball infestation (work in progress)

    Eyeball infestation (work in progress)

    “I want something abstract,” Said the collector. So Joan came up with this; eyeballs shooting forth from a gaping void of a toothy mouth. This piece is still a work in progress.

  • Deadly Rose

    Deadly Rose

    One prick of a thorn from a deadly lover

    A venomous love

    Indebted to each other

    • A blackwork rose boldly enhancing the curve of the elbow. Inside which is a skull.

  • Pennywise

    Pennywise

    Pennywise stares at us from within a coffin. His eyes are fear, his gaze is death.

  • Lucifer the Cat

    Lucifer the Cat

    This collector wanted to get a tattoo honoring his beloved cat. This design illustrates Lucifers’ quick wit and insane intelligence. It is done in black and gray neo trad.

  • Wild Sweet William

    Wild Sweet William

    Wild Sweet William is a wild flower designed as a memorial piece for the collector’s father. It was derived from childhood and her memoires of her father. This black and gray neo trad floral piece wraps around the collectors forearm with an organic spiral.

  • Bad ass Basking Shark

    Bad Ass Basking Shark

    Twisting up the collectors ankle is a neo trad basking shark. This piece quite successfully covers an old home-made tattoo.

  • Floral Arm Piece

    Floral Arm Piece

    A dancing vine curls up and around this collector’s arm. Around which flutter about the graceful dance of beautiful butterflies.