For Instinct #3, he approaches masculinity and transformation via the character Pinocchio. He says, “Pinocchio embodies anxiety and confusion in regard to male puberty and what it means to become a real boy”. Cole’s Pinocchio is a rickety assemblage, “how he’d look if Geppetto wasn’t a professional woodworker”. Pinocchio’s racial identity is made indeterminate by the varied light and dark woods that constitute his body. His gender is also ambiguous, manifested in the form of an axe that both castrates and endows him, creating an opening (or “axe wound”) and an erect phallus (or “chopper”).