Using T. S. Elliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” as a starting point Howard explores the corporate culture of our time. The archetypal image of the business, power suit has become the new “Hollow Man” of the modern age. The work deals with an underlying fear that no one is truly in control as corporate society pushes the world ever closer to the brink of economic and ecological collapse.

Cruelty of Children was conceived as an installation piece where the viewer would be surrounded by a group of menacing children. The idea based is loosely on a couple of incidents of gangs of teenagers attacking people in the Lower Mainland and the killing of Reena Virk in Victoria. The piece questions the idea of the innocence of childhood.