You caught him in a fragile place (plaster, coffee, latex paint, plate from artist's childhood home, board; 2020) is part of a body of work recently shown in Kel Mur's MFA exhibition titled heirloom which concentrates on the permeability of the body and psyche in the domestic environment. In this particular piece, a plaster cast of a hyper-masculine fist pounds into the china but is not strong enough to break it. Simultaneously, the materiality of the plaster is altered by its absorption of the coffee it sits in. The plate stands in for the private domestic sphere as well as an individual's family dynamic while the coffee illustrates how our daily habits shape who we are. This work asks us to observe what we have inherited from our surroundings and explores the tension between nature and nurture.