There are many recurring themes and subjects in Joe Becker’s work: corrupted innocence, notions of nostalgia, decay, and mass-marketed characters and icons of youth. His work takes the form of visceral composites plundered from cartoons, humor magazines, horror movies, video games, Topps trading cards, and illustrations from childhood all mix together into a primordial stew. The resulting efforts create an agitated universe besieged with agonizing gluttony, toilet humor and rich amalgams of personal and cultural detritus. The repetition of artifacts and codified characters—each with their own assigned proclivities—exist within a space that is loaded inside jokes, and jumbled memories.