Confined to a wire cage inside a foul smelling barn, Lily's
fragile body endured years of abuse as she birthed litter after litter for the sole purpose of making money for her captors.
At once the silvered remains of a martyred saint, and an amputated cyborg's limb, Paul Thek's Untitled (from the series Technological Reliquaries)(ca.1966 - 67) points to
enduring fantasies of the meeting of man and metal, and of how technology might protect, preserve, or even reanimate our
fragile bodies.