The Organ Grinder’s Banquet

Mixed Media
41” x 18” x 4”
2024

This mixed-media assemblage centers on an 1880s New York daguerreotype of an organ grinder, surrounded by Victorian images of twin sisters and an organ grinder’s monkey, Castings of small hands, mechanical fragments, Godzilla, a UFO, and surreal figures—including a Buddha with a rabbit head—create a dark, vaudevillian tableau. The work blends Victorian spectacle with contemporary myth, evoking the strange theater of history, memory, and popular culture.