Even the title of the show “Twisted Bodies Tell Their Tales” has something piratesque to it. As if, waking through his pieces, the viewer could find himself softly chanting the “Dead men tell no tales,” riff, with some satisfaction. Of a piratesque ethos Mah has the joy for the disruption of the status quo, just like pirates were disrupting the trade routes of power which kept empires together – alongside their subjugated populations.