Hershey’s work eludes one emotional impact. Often rendered in pencil on off-white paper, his drawings explore corporeal disconnections, narrative fragments, and manifestations of distant memory all imbued with a characteristic darkness. Hershey’s drawings are not typically ornamental – sometimes depicting a singular part of a figure, a lone garment, or an aura engulfed by a graphite sfumato. They are deceptively delicate works that reveal unsettling tension without the slightest use of gore or camp.

A new series of short digital videos presents decapitated heads just moments after a figure’s mysterious undoing. The imagery, typically a near static shot spanning 30 seconds, reveals the head’s sensory shut down towards a gradual comatose fade. The observed result is meant to confound perception within the viewer. That is, as the lone severed head peers outward, the reconciliation of its sequential demise (or outright performance) comes into question.Ultimately, the works categorical underpinnings come undone as the viewer’s gaze on the scene writes an enigmatic epitaph in empathy, seduction, temporarily and release.