The ceramic figures of Doug Jeck are fragmented, dismembered, defeated and highly realistic. Their poses allude to Greek and Roman statuary but Jeck cuts off arms and legs, sometimes reattaching a replacement hand, but more frequently leaving the figure without some of its limbs. With his composite figures Jeck illustrates that there is no single original and therefore there is no heroic paradigm. This suggests that any attempts to imply the heroic could merely be social intervention. From the Series:What Follows