"Schlep and Screw, Knowledge Rental Pawn Exchange Service," 2017, is part of Hancock’s ongoing body of work that imagines a meeting between his alter-ego Torpedo Boy, a black superhero, and one of the buffoonish Klansmen who populated Philip Guston’s paintings.

In this work, the Klansman hands Torpedo Boy an apple as a tail-eating serpent coils around the edges of the tableau. This gesture, set against a verdant, blooming backdrop, recalls the primordial moment of exchange in Western Christian culture: the Original Sin, in which Adam and Eve are enticed to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and expelled from Paradise.