Kathleen Ryan's Jackie (2021) is a jack-o'-lantern with its lid tipped over on the floor beside it. The skin is studded with tens of thousands of acrylic beads. The rot inside is lapis, malachite, amethyst, and agate, pinned on by hand. She usually saves the cheap beads for the fresh parts and the real stones for the decay, so the moldiest bit is worth the most. It stands over 5 feet tall.

Ryan was born in Santa Monica in 1984 and minored in archaeology. Before grad school, she coordinated Jeff Koons's plastics projects at the fabricator Carlson & Co. Her Bad Fruit series started in 2018 with beaded plastic fruit she found in thrift stores. Jackie is now in the Nasher Sculpture Center's collection in Dallas. Its grin gives a view of the rot inside.