The sexual pulse of a lot of his objects--There is something erotic in all my work , Smith admitted--is evident in loud titles for sculptures like She Who Must Be Obeyed and Jim 's Piece . He constructed almost as many phallic shapes as Kusama and filled his notebooks with erotic doodlings comparing the sex organs of humans and flowers , or depicting Christ--Smith was a Catholic--with breasts .
The sexual pulse of many of his subjects- There 's nothing erotic in my work , Smith admitted - seems to not exist or at least be overlooked .