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Lot Essay
According to Benefiel:
Hygienic Toys #2 is a very autobiographical self-portrait, created during an intense period of personal struggle in my life. It depicts a beautiful, almost sexless little boy whose body is ravaged and broken by others and by time, barely wrapped in rotted linens as he attempts to pose in quiet, isolated dignity. His visage is nothing more than a reference for his true value and meaning found in the numerical records stamped next to his body. There is no prose to his life, and no need for explanatory text; there is only this ambiguous record of his worth to some unknown keepers lost long ago, deep in some forgotten state archive.
Hygienic Toys #2 is a very autobiographical self-portrait, created during an intense period of personal struggle in my life. It depicts a beautiful, almost sexless little boy whose body is ravaged and broken by others and by time, barely wrapped in rotted linens as he attempts to pose in quiet, isolated dignity. His visage is nothing more than a reference for his true value and meaning found in the numerical records stamped next to his body. There is no prose to his life, and no need for explanatory text; there is only this ambiguous record of his worth to some unknown keepers lost long ago, deep in some forgotten state archive.