Assisted Prosthetics and other ‘Junk’ – 2025

Mixed media assemblage. Vintage letter (or missive) tray, 2 x bird nests, 2 x sea shells, vintage aluminium record player arm on swivel base, vintage metal horse bit, straw, articulated artist’s wooden hand model, 3 brass screws H42 x W29.5 x D11 cm

With traditional masculinity and ability to perform under threat, here we have the solution. The perfect male erection made possible via an oversized prosthetic phallus being supported, if not cajoled, by an equally artificial left hand. Logically this could not be the hand attached to the ‘body’ of the erect member – and hence the ‘assistance’. The thumb of the hand has become detached and protrudes from the top at a jaunty angle of this erect well-worn shmeckel .

The hand is shackled to the dick or shlong’ – the one heavily dependent on the other.

The ‘junk’ speaks for itself; two seashells in cosy well-formed birds’ nests on a bed of pubic straw.