In RARE PLUS, Jordan Spade explores the structure of classic romanticism from its sensual and intellectual perspectives to demonstrate its ability to mislead or delude. His multi-faceted sculpture, Actaeon’s Gaze: Watching a Lover Bathe in Two States, utilizes the myth of the unattainable, as personified by the hunter Actaeon falling in love with the goddess Diana after having spied her bathing. As punishment she transforms him into a stag and his own hounds then tear him apart. Actaeon serves as a phantasm in the search for truth embodied by the notion of “true love.” Spade is intent on showing that in classic romanticism pure love is only attainable as a delusion, as it actually exists in two simultaneous states – the sacred and the profane, as symbolized by the “two states” of this sculpture. ... . . .