NADA New York 2025

Haemon derives from the form-emphasis path.

Haemon, ancient greek “bloody”, Creon’s beleaguered son, Antigone’s suicidal lover, secondary, starcrossed, and plagued. The city of Thebes is a plague. With the flayed mouse pressed to the slashed avocado skin there is a sense of a cursed, vulnerable pairing, against a backdrop of oppressive infrastructure. The artist’s blood on the mouse pelt was an accidental cut, upon later research the coincidental etymology of the name was discovered, an instance of retroactive coherence. Past this, the object falls just short of the illustrative, not quite a fleshed representation. Though exponentially dense visually, it has an asymptotic relationship to the parameters presented by title, it fails to fill. Antigone fills the cave, he falls at her feet.