Anamorphic Cone Collection

Lala Land
2008 | Acrylic, resin, powder and steel | 100 x 45 x 30 cm
2013 | Prints by Niina Keks and Otto Pierrotto


This nude of my father is my study on how data flows through the human corpus collosum. We all exist as split personalities: spiritual and operational. For those of you who understand computers, our right brain functions like a parallel processor. While our left hemisphere functions like a serial processor. The two hemispheres communicate with one another through the corpus collosum, which is made up of some 300 million axonal fibers.

Left Brain
The left hemisphere of our brain thinks methodically. It is all about ordering the past and predicting the future. Our left hemisphere is designed to take that enormous coll

Left Brain vs. Right Brain

2008 | Copper and Chrome | 60 x 60 x 45 cm
2013 | Prints by Niina Keks and Otto Pierrotto

Without fail science, magic, and religion have pandered to the cult of youthfulness. More than merely camouflaging a pandemic fear of death, the desire for rejuvenation is a rejection of the infirmities and diseases of old age.  It is a desire to regain the beauty and vitality of youth.

The cult of Youthfulness

Yoda and the Anamorph
2008 | Resin, powder and chrome
2013 | Prints by Niina Keks and Otto Pierrotti 

Winner of the Maidstone Museum Bentliff Prize, People's Choice Award.

Satori is a Japanese Buddhist term for "Enlightenment". Buddhist teachings explain that our perceptions of reality are built on the foundation of ego. In essence, the greatest obstacle to enlightenment is the self. The self is a worldly illusion created by desires and needs. The self, is a construction built on social conventions and personal history. Satori is consciousness free of ego and it depends on complete identification with the not-self. Yoda and the Anamorph uses the precise language of mathematics to encapsulate the deeply complex and temporal not-self.

Yoda and the Anamorph

2010 | Copper and Chrome | 75 x 52 x 36 cm
2013 | Prints by Niina Keks and Otto Pierrotto

I've spent some thought time trying to get to the bottom of what precipitated the credit crunch. Ultimately it came down to lack of transparency at multiple levels from credit risk scoring to flawed hyper-diversification models.  The human ingredients through the good times were mathematics and confidence. In the aftershock, we turned to Quantitive Easing and prayer.  The sculpture Yogi Credit Crunch paints the surprisingly spiritual conversation I had with one powerful Goldman Sachs banker as he sat in the eye of the storm.

Yogi Banker

Kiss of Chytrid
2009-2010 | Acrylic, Resin, Powder and Steel | 64 x 64 x 36 cm


We are witnessing a mass extinction of Amphibia. An exotic fungus called Chytrid is delivering the blow.

Chytrid is now reported on all continents where frogs live - in 43 countries. It survives at elevations from sea level to 20,000 feet. Locally it may be spread by anything from a frog’s leg to a bird’s feather and it has afflicted over 200 species. Gone from the wild are the Costa Rican golden toad, the Panamanian golden frog, the Wyoming toad, the Australian gastric-brooding frog. In a 2007 paper, Australian researcher Lee Berger and colleagues put it this way: “The impact of Chytrid on frogs is the most spectacular loss of vertebrate biodivers

Jonty Hurwitz