Elmo Rocco is a 3D print of what's inside an ELMO TMX toy. An army of robotic figures performing military maneuvers was the basis of my installation "Battle of the Pyramids," built during a residency at Eyebeam, New York in 2008.

Here the warrior facsimile, Elmo Rocco, polymath, polyglot, travels through time as a quiet and invisible force of inspiration and invention. He does this in a range of demeanors: at times somber and even irritable; at other times in a state of exuberant enthusiasm, which can be equally difficult to bear.

These are Elmo Rocco’s captured memories, plucked from the memory palace of his mind, and as so, are uneven in coverage. While often his presence in a scenario is sharply evident, at times it is embedded so deeply in the action that it is hardly perceptible; manifesting itself as each situation requires.

With exquisite discretion and determination, Elmo Rocco segues between myriad roles as architect, artifact, chef, chronicler, engineer, explorer, healer, historian, jurisprudent, merchant, naturalist, patriot, patron, warrior, and philosopher.