Return to Reality: Q+A with Trenton Doyle Hancock

For the past 12 years or so, Trenton Doyle Hancock has explored an invented mythological world through paintings and prints, sculptures and installations. In that world, good battles evil, as hybrid creatures called "Mounds"--part Neanderthal, part plant--fight to survive in the heart of a pristine jungle. They are beset by "Vegans," the colorblind Neanderthals who seek to destroy them. The Mounds are for better or worse protected by a character called Torpedo Boy, who is, in Hancock's words, "a superhero but also a screw-up." As the stories unfold, Mounds are sometime killed but mostly manage, Vegans lose and regain their hateful ways, and Torpedo Boy (an alter-ego of the artist) does the best he can.

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