Untitled (Rifle Rest): part Art Object, part trophy. The sculpture is hand-sewn from remnants of a buck-deer skin and filled with sand. Its bag sits atop a steel adjustable tripod, which in turn is contained within a tabletop vitrine. As used by shooters, one's rifle rest "does not inhibit recoil or allow clinging that could mar a gun's finish". This surreal object distills some of the more unsettling aspects of Buck's work, as the psychosexual relationship of predator to prey is dramatized. As the artist notes, "After all, we only hurt the things we love".
In 2008, the artist changed his artistic signature from Robert Beck to Robert Buck. Untitled (Rifle Rest) is a work by Robert Beck.
