YOU would be a bit alarmed if you woke to find a monkey hanging from your headboard.

When I turned away from the fridge, there were monkeys at two windows, hanging on the frames outside, looking in at me.

Doogie was still putting the Hummer through quick serpentine maneuvers, and at the tailgate, the monkey hanging upside down from the roof rack swung back and forth across the unbroken window, as if it were a clock pendulum.

Most of those things were stick figures, monkeys hanging from twigs, four-legged beasts that could have been anything.

A combination work from Mexico brings together pictures of tree roots, a monkey hanging from the bars of his cage, and soldiers checking cars at a roadblock.

When engaging a flying monkey at the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West, Eric explains the meaning of existence which leads to the flying monkey hanging himself.

Then Richard Kraft, the department's former director, was quoted as speaking of "monkeys" hanging on basketball rims in the park adjacent to Yankee Stadium, and of "colored boys" losing their roots.

But there are deep connections between the old and the new, say, the minutely detailed pirate ship with monkeys hanging from the riggings that Lego produced in 1989 and Mr. Knudsen's invention of a Minerva Lego robot with a mechanical grasping arm.