premise: The sexual pulse of a lot of his objects--There is something erotic in all my work, Smith admitted--is evident in loud titles for sculptures like She Who Must Be Obeyed and Jim's Piece . He constructed almost as many phallic shapes as Kusama and filled his notebooks with erotic doodlings comparing the sex organs of humans and flowers, or depicting Christ--Smith was a Catholic--with breasts.
hypothesis: The sexual pulse of many of his subjects- There's something erotic in my work, Smith admitted - is evident in sculptures and phallic shapes as well as erotic doodling.