THE BLACK BINDER
Literal and Symbolic.
Black Magic Spellbindings.
A binding spell references ancient occult rituals designed to affect change through “binding” someone or something to another’s will.
Binding spells are about power and control.
The spirit of Jezebel.
Honey Pot.
Just another coincidence.
+
Ancient occult origins.
"Katadesmos"
Made of metal and covered in spidery writing, instead of being a gift offered to the goddesses Demeter and Persephone like the clay statuettes, lamps, and vases also in the installation, it had a purely malicious intent: to inflict pain.
Known as curse tablets, objects such as this one were made by scratching a curse onto a thin rectangular sheet of lead using a stylus or pointed tool. The lead was then heated slightly and folded up to hide the writing. The tablet could be rolled around magic herbs, or even animal or human hair (from the intended victim!) for extra potency.
SYMBOLISM WILL BE THEIR DOWNFALL
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/an-ancient-curse-revealed/