Upstairs, in what I believe they called the kids’ room, was an installation by Jason. You walk in the closet, and the installation is on the other side of a piece of glass. It consisted of tinfoil-type trophies, kid stuff and a lot of sausage. Apple-sized holes were drilled in the glass so the viewer could pick up one of the BB guns behind it and shoot at the installation. I just remember the feeling of permission and possibilities at once: You can do whatever you want.

"A Talk with Sculptor Nathan Mabry" was comissioned for the March 2008 web release of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's March 2008 Table of Contents.