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Ranging from performance art to small-scale sculpture, John Bock’s works revel in the nonsensically eclectic. His performances and three-dimensional collages often divorce found materials—clothing and household products, for example—from their original uses to confer a new meaning upon everyday objects. Bock created this assemblage from a necktie, twig, empty boxes of cereal and perfume, and a cardboard toilet paper tube. On the stationery of a Viennese hotel, at the base of the sculpture, is a drawn diagram similar to those Bock often uses on a larger scale in his performance art. The assemblage also attests to Bock’s interest in architecture, and suggests the multiple levels of his immersive installations, which require visitors to maneuver through them.