Untitled (Waxy Witch), 2012 traces the tangled genealogy of a medieval myth grounded in folk botany through its mysterious reappearances in the collective fantasies of modern popular culture and the artist’s personal history. Set upon an upended hollow log, a hand-blown glass ball featuring a hand-painted likeness of the Looney Tunes cartoon character Witch Hazel serves as a receptacle for a crumpled photograph of a young woman in a sexy witch costume taken from the November 1976 issue of Hustler magazine (in observance of Halloween, naturally) found in the garage of the artist’s father. The glass orb itself an object bearing wiccan connotations of crystal balls and spirit catchers is penetrated by an actual broom, which Hazel rides, made to scale and out of a branch from a Contorted filbert (Corkscrew Hazel) shrub. – from Robert Slifkin’s essay A Remedial Education