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The Hollow Heart

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03/June/2008 - A REPLICA OF THIS BOX MADE FROM MY ORIGINAL DESIGN IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT THE PYRAMID GALLERY - [link]
see the youtube vid of it in action here> [link]

It is believed that LeMarchand created the Hollow Heart as a commissioned piece for Pierre Charles L’Enfant, a Paris born Architect, who studied at the royal academy before moving to America and enrolling to fight in the American Revolution.

After the war, L'enfant, having adopted the name Peter Charles L’Enfant, created a civil engineering firm in New York. In 1791 he was appointed by president George Washington to design a new capital, but was dismissed by Washington in 1792 as a result of his poor temperament and his demands that he city be realised as a whole - this had brought him into conflict with the district commissioners (who had wanted the funds available channeled into federal buildings), and they had the support of Thomas Jefferson. So the project was passed to Andrew Ellicott, who was originally employed only to survey the city, and the money owed to L'Enfant for the work he had done went unpaid.
After many years of trying to get what was owed him by the U.S. government he was embittered and turned to darker means to find justice, whereupon LeMarchand was commissioned.

Incensed by his rejection, the fact that Ellicott had changed his original City designs, and the fact he had spent so much of his life in service to America only to be treated so badly, he asked to have the box "the Hollow Heart" (so named because L'Enfant felt he had given so much of his heart to the country he had taken as his own, only to be cast aside) created by Lemarchand in order to have some small revenge for his betrayal.

the Box was delivered to Ellicott in 1805; it took him 15 years to divine its solution, whereupon L'Enants revenge was finally realised.

Some 5 years later L'Enfant died in poverty and was buried in Princes County, Maryland.


The reason Why LeMarchand chose to include Steet plans of New York in the box are unknown. Theories range from the bland (that LeMarchand simply wished to include Americas two greatest cities) to the Extreme (that the sewers of New York include hidden in their design the sighil 'Odegra' ) whichever is correct, two things are fact: that LeMarchand was and is the most prolific serial killer ever to escape justice, and 'The Hollow Heart' was the work of a psychopathic genius.


Made in Photoshop

Other Hellraiser inspired boxes by steelgohst -

Box of Pleasures - [link]
Box of Grief - [link]
Enigme - [link]
the Acerbus configuration - [link]
LeMarchands ring -
[link]
Abyssus Daedalus, the labyrinth configuration - [link]
The Box of Gateways - [link]
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Eleramo's avatar
This is great.