Folkert de Jong is best known for his theatrical, narrative installations. His life-sized sculptures, presented in tableau-like arrangements, take on the themes of war, greed, violence, and politics. In Pick Nick he refers to one of America’s favorite pastimes, barbequing, connecting it in a grotesque way to death, destruction, and terrorism. The Styrofoam and polyurethane De Jong uses are petroleum-based products and are some of the most nonrecyclable materials in existence. Referring in this way to oil-based economies, the vast power of petrochemical industries, and conflicts between nations over oil, De Jong makes us consider our own complicity in a world full of inequality and violence.