Nicole Eisenman’s Maker’s Muck (2022) is a sculptural installation that captures the messy, non-linear nature of creativity. At its center, a faceless figure hunches over a potter’s wheel where a lump of clay spins endlessly, surrounded by half-formed sculptures, fragments, and tools. The work stages art-making as both chaos and evolution, suggesting that creation is never straightforward but always in flux. Eisenman, a French-born, Brooklyn-based artist, is known for blending humor, critique, a