Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? 2021
Plasma-cut steel
50 x 40 x 43 in.

The brain, finite in materiality, is deceptively infinite. Emotions we feel – those tethered to our personal history and our present state of being – are supposedly contained. How difficult indeed to achieve an intellectual understanding of the complex organ. How curious it seems that we will to interpret through the emotional gateway of our heart.

Title is quoted from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

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Permanent Collection at the Craig Wall Jr. Academic Center, Davidson College | U.S.
Pictures: Van Every / Smith Galleries | U.S.