Reaching Beyond the Human

A SERIES OF TEN TUBULAR BLOWN-GLASS sculptures, each the size and shape of an internal organ, sat on curvy, custom-built fiberboard tables distributed like islands in an archipelago throughout the Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University in New York this past fall. Part of Finnish artist Tuomas A. Laitinen’s beguiling exhibition “The Boneless One,” the knotty sculptures—some of them splotched with algal color—contain as many as five internal chambers and