Jimi Hendrix lives on in songs like ‘Cunning Woman,’ ‘Voodoo Chile’ and ‘Purple Haze,’ however fewer individuals know that the legendary singer was additionally immortalized in a unique, much less conventional medium. The artist Cynthia Albritton, higher recognized by the moniker Cynthia Plaster Caster, created a plaster forged of Hendrix’s erect penis—and it has simply been donated to a museum, the place it is going to go on show.
Albritton, who lately died on the age of 74, left the souvenir of Hendrix’s member, considered one of a small assortment, to The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik. The museum boasts “a group of greater than 2 hundred penises and penile components belonging to virtually all of the land and sea mammals that may be present in Iceland.”
Hendrix was the primary superstar to grow to be the topic of Albritton’s work. “He was actually laid again, relaxed, very quiet within the mould,” Albritton stated within the 2020 documentary Let’s Spend the Night time Collectively, though she did admit that “his pubes received caught” within the plaster.
As a “supergroupie”—a time period she by no means appeared ashamed to make use of to explain herself herself—Albritton had entry to different musicians, and ultimately included stars just like the Lifeless Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, MC5’s Wayne Kramer and Tv’s Richard Lloyd in her portfolio of penis plaster casts. (The music ‘Plaster Caster’ by KISS? Yep, that was written about her; though she by no means included anybody from that band in her work.)
