Incurable Tumor (2015)

Layered among bulbous, organic, and piercing bursts, canvases were stacked from floor to the ceiling as the medium was stretched, pulled, twisted, and reassembled. The artist took classical inspiration from the Aeneid, in which Laocoon’s two sons are strangled by serpents: parua duorum corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque implicat.

parua duorum corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque implicat [each snake grasped and enfolded the small bodies of the two sons], Wood, canvas, paper, paint, plastic, insulation foam, glue, 2015. Installation view at Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.