Into His Gourds

Into His Gourds: Robert Rhee Makes Surprisingly Amazing Art Out of Humanity's Oldest Plantsby Jen GravesSet off by itself in a corner of the gallery, on a white pedestal, there is a brutalized object. It's a fleshy and brownish thing squeezing through the bars of an odd-looking metal cage. It blobs out on all sides, the sight of it making my own skin tighten.What I'm seeing looks like a gourd. A gourd in pain, like one of those male bodies all twisted up in the center of a noxious environment in