Traditional domestic objects speak to Joseph Havel’s exploration of transformative states in which objects are interchanged with ideas. His sculptures are specific items that have been altered in some way but ultimately live as doppelgängers of real things. The origin for Havel’s sculpture Twins, 2007, is two bed sheets, stiffened and modeled using wax then cast in bronze. Bonded in the center with a knot, they defy gravity and logic as they stand freely and are pulled between earth and sky. The sculpture is intentionally ambiguous, able to be viewed abstractly, literally or as a metaphor for human relations.