Although Smith never plays Aimee’s naive endeavor for laughs, the resulting project is a classic case of misguided altruism engorged on vanity.

We saw an engorged python digesting a mother porcupine, quills and all, with her babies looking on.

Engorged layers of firm, deliberate strokes of clotted paint are themselves objectified, even as they describe objects like machinery, a fence or a steel I-beam.