Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof appears almost like crude doodles that one would find in the margins of a high school notebook, desk or bathroom wall. However, here they are enlarged to the size of banners like one would see hanging in a gymnasium, as if the outsiders in school decided to showcase the iconography that symbolized their counterculture. It is a mockery and collision of Irish clovers, male genitalia, skulls and morbid portraiture. The Swatstika in one banner is clearly ridiculed and stripped of its power by placing clovers and/or male genitalia on the ends of the lines. Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof was originally conceived of as costumes for a performance which was a collaboration between Mike Kelley and the dancer Anita Pace and performed on a fashion show-style ramp to music by Motörhead. In turn the project also satirized the heavy metal genre, which adopted imagery of skulls, devils, and other mordant iconography. Kelley specifically lampoons Motörhead by repeating their superfluous use of an umlaut over the E's in his own name on one banner with a devils mask.