Yoke / לוע, 2026
Carved Douglas fir, iron chain, bicycle rack, found cow piercing, Kryptonite lock fragments, bent iron rods
The Hebrew title לוע - throat, gullet , is an anagram of עול, yoke: the same letters, reversed. Like boustrophedon, the ancient writing method named after the ox turning at the end of a furrow, the word performs the movement it describes. The sculpture is also the animal itself, a zoomorphic one. its carved Douglas fir warm wood and like flesh, its bent iron rods suggesting limbs or horns. At its center hangs a bull-piercing, placed where a nose ring would be: the point of capture, the site where control enters the body. The Kryptonite lock fragments taken from the street, bent to the scale of a human neck, compress a machine, person, and beast into a single object. Mounted on a bicycle rack, the work assembles the hardware of urban mobility and agricultural control into one form: a yoke that has become a body, a body that was always a tool, a tool waiting for someone to step inside it.