"I do think my works are becoming more and more sexual. Earlier, I kept away from the sexual, or it was very buried. Now its buriedness is obvious, so that you know you’re looking at sublimated objects. They reek of sex, yet nothing is openly erotic. I’ve always been interested in the signs of repressed sex" (Mike Kelley in conversation with Isabelle Graw, in: Georges Bataille, Charles Fort and Isabelle Graw, Mike Kelley, London 1999, p. 23).