Created while working in-residence at Stanton Yards, Scott Hocking constructed Self-Portrait of Hieronymus Bosch in the Garden of Earthly Delights entirely from steel sailboat stands and maritime artifacts salvaged onsite in 2025. Inspired by The Sea and the Sky, and You and I, Hocking explored ideas of history and duality—the sky and sea, landscapes and skyscapes, life and death, the earth and heavens, and the reflections and interplay between the two—to develop this drawing in space and his new Water Works series.

This sculpture was informed by The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1510), a grand panoramic triptych painted by Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. Read from left to right, each panel depicts different scenes: Paradise, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and Hell. The right panel includes a central figure––known as “Tree-Man”––and his cavernous body, surrounded by a fantastically rendered world of temptation. Interpreted by scholars as a hidden self-portrait of Bosch, Hocking envisions this geometric abstraction of Tree Man as a conceptual triptych, connecting different times, references, and sites.