Forget meaning. This work functions like some sort of homemade cultural probe. Think of a kid poking a stick into swamp water and removing it to see what lies beneath. Pokorny's creative imagination seems to work that way.
People have a hard time imagining living with Pokorny's sculpture, but in a sense we all do already.
— Kenneth Baker
They are a collection of fetishes, commodities, abject stand-in, treasure and heritage. How can they be anything but stuff?
— Anthony Elms, from his essay "What Have You Left Me?". Download it here