Leo Krukowski Art

A strong headless man, whose neck would support two faces looking in different directions, holds a heavy bowl that is larger on the inside than the outside. The space contained by the bowl enters into his torso. He holds it as if pouring it out and looks either down at the bowl, or over his shoulder. His gaze, though absent, responds to yours. Draws on imagery of Lares and Janus, classical deities.

Abstraction and abstraction. The bowl, womb-like, fills his torso. Its hollow almost comes out of his back. Full of emptiness. Is he hollow like that without his bowl? Does it reveal, does it carve part of him out, does it obscure something? People as vessels pouring out, vessels as shrines. Painterly statuary with its missing limbs and knurled lines of tension in lieu of musculature, but still soft and alive enough to curl his toes.

A neck that points two chins in two different directions, like the Roman god of priests, and never quite towards the viewer. A heroic figure that points to a Lar. Intermediation on one side, interlocution on the other, and a vessel that produces a vessel.