Sharp motherfucker

Entitled An exhibition of caricatures, absolute and relative, de Zayas' third and last show at 291 in the spring of 1913 reflected his scientism.

In the catalogue text he outlined the distinction, derived from 'experimental analysis', between absolute and relative works: 'I call absolute caricatures those in which the individual influences time by the whole of his actions; and relative, those in which time influences the individual – that is to say when the individual has to make abstraction of his real self to adapt it to the character of a given moment of circumstance.'

He believed the spirit could be represented mathematically by 'algebraic formulas' and that matter could be represented by 'geometrical equivalents'. Moreover, de Zayas found that 'man in relation to his own life and to mankind, forms a third psychological entity, which is not an arithmetical addition, but a chemical combination'.