Thomas Houseago’s works in wood, bronze, and plaster depict powerful and expressive figures. Hood/Head is the result of Houseago’s conflation of disparate sources, from Synthetic Cubism to the musical British Invasion of the 1960s. Grand in scale, it is at once fragile and powerful, equally suggestive of an ancient Greek helmet or futuristic body armor. Thus with a combination of elements drawn from such disparate sources as Picasso’s plaster busts of Marie-Thérèse Walter and images of the Star Wars antagonist Darth Vader, Houseago explores psychological duality. The head is divided into two parts—indicated by the sculpture’s cleft—suggesting consciousness and sub-consciousness.