METAPHYSICS
Insect Politics, 2025
Foam, wire, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
2½ × 35 × 14 inches
In the climactic scene of David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), Seth Brundle gives the following soliloquy before succumbing to the insect DNA he’s been fused with:
“Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects don’t have politics. They’re very brutal. No compassion. No compromise. We can’t trust the insect. I’d like to become the first insect politician. You see, I’d like to, but… I’m an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over… and the insect is awake.”
The game Operation was introduced by Parker Brothers in 1965. Gameplay entails removing organs and bones from the body of a “patient” named Cavity Sam.
Theatre of Cruelty, 2025
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic acrylic paint
10 × 28 × 24 inches
Antonin Artaud developed the Theatre of Cruelty in the mid-1930s. He envisioned a theater that used unconventional and confrontational sound, staging, acting, and movement to jar the audience out of their daily existence and put them in touch with the darker, often obscured forces of violence and sexuality that he believed lay at the heart of the human experience.
Depictions of gladiatorial combat, such as the battle between Thor and the Hulk in the film Thor: Ragnarok (2017), appear to serve a similar function.
Dust to Dust, 2024
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
13 × 36 × 18 inches
The Hare Krishnas believe that as the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from childhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death.
This belief is elegantly communicated by a sculpture in the window of the Hare Krishna Center on Second Avenue in Manhattan.
Untitled, 2024
Oil on board
12 × 16 inches
Blackthorn, 2024
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
56 × 22 × 14 inches
Kintsugi/The Broken Vessel, 2023
Oil on board
16 × 12 inches
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing ceramics using resin and precious metals.
Bone Asteroid, 2022
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
39 × 15 × 16 inches
Ascension, 2019
Foam, epoxy, MDF, acrylic paint
18 × 10 × 4 inches
In the Season 1 finale of True Detective, Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) track the killer, Errol Childress (Glenn Fleshler), back to his dilapidated mansion. Rust and Marty chase Childress into his sanctuary. Once inside, Childress stabs Rust and drives an axe into Marty’s chest. Gravely wounded, Rust is still able to kill Childress. Although physically and emotionally traumatized, the two detectives survive.
The episode ends with a conversation outside the hospital, between Marty and Rust as they peer up into the night sky and consider the eternal war between light and darkness.
Marty: It appears there’s a lot more dark territory than light.
Rust: Yeah, well, you’re right about that.
[ . . . ]
Rust: You’re looking at it wrong—the sky, I mean.
Marty: Yeah, how’s that?
Rust: Well, once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light’s winning.
On each of Childress’s two appearances in the season, he’s wearing a boiler suit.
Dance of the Cenobites, 2018
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
13 × 36 × 18 inches
The Cenobites are characters in the film Hellraiser (1987). They exist in “a world of pain and pleasure, indivisible.”
Happy Baby, 2018
Foam, wood, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
29 × 26 × 10 inches
Sauron, 2015
Foam, epoxy, acrylic paint
61 × 12 × 11 inches
Urn, 2019
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
19½ × 13 × 7 inches
Theresa, 2015
Foam, epoxy, wood, acrylic paint
29 × 7 × 11 Inches