Renate Druks

She worked in Los Angeles, where she also practiced Thelema, the occult religious movement established by Aleister Crowley.

[2][3][4] She studied further at the Art Students League, spent several years in Mexico, and eventually settled in Los Angeles.

[2][3] She threw lavish parties at her Malibu home, one of which becamse the inspiration for Anger's 1954 film, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.

[2][4] Her subjects were typically women and cats, and her style has been compared to Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini.

[8] Space Boy was intended as a sequel to her friend Curtis Harrington's 1966 science-fiction horror film, Queen of Blood.