From the artist: “Unlike the traditional St. Anthony, the demons we wage our spiritual battles against are not the grotesque, medieval monsters but the familiar, commonplace false idols we make in the image of ourselves, our communities, and the cultural liturgies we act out. Familiarity disarms us and makes us more malleable and posable, making these cultural mechanisms that tie up the self so effective. We see these temptations enacted in the wilderness of the everyday, and it’s here, like St. Anthony, we make our stand.”

Note: This piece was commissioned to accompany “Resisting a Culture of Incoherence” by Brandon Vaidyanathan.