As is the case with all of Robert Gober’s sculptures, this work was meticulously created by hand down to the last details, including the latticework of the plastic milk crate and the individual placement of real human hairs on the wax torso. Untitled began with the reconstruction of a found object: a broken milk crate. The artist cast this common, mass-produced object by hand, and later inserted the half-male, half-female torso into the receptacle. Similar torsos have appeared independently in Gober’s work, and he has also made another version of this piece with a male torso.