Compare The Dead: Belphegor and Proposition Player by Matthew Ritchie.

The Dead: Belphegor is a drawing in
ink and graphite on plastic.  A figure of a demon is represented with a skeletal head
and a rather human body.  The body is filled with brownish, yellowish swirls and
abstracted objects that appear to be eye balls.  The figure is throwing its hands up in
a gesture of either frustration or discovery.  There are lines radiating from parts of
the picture that are reminiscent of lines from charts, maps, or possibly engineering
blue prints.

Proposition Player is a
far more complicated piece to describe.  It is not really one piece, but an entire show,
in which Ritchie attempted to depict the entire universe; how it came to be; and how we,
as players, contribute to it.  Within the exhibition Proposition
Player there are drawings hanging on the wall, painted on the wall, painted
on the floor, suspended above the floor, and projected in various parts of the space. 
As you can imagine, this definitely gives the effect of viewing something extremely
expansive.  Ritchie admits in an interview with the PBS series Art
21 that at the heart of Proposition Player is the idea
of risk.  There are parts of the exhibit where the viewers are invited to participate in
a kind of game which is intended to make them think about the randomness of the
universe.  Ritchie wants to emphasize that moment in a game of chance, between placing
your bet and finding out if you have won.  He says this is the point where creation
happens and anything is possible.

The Dead:
Belphegor is a more recent manifestation of the same ideas Ritchie was
dealing with in Proposition Player, created one year later.  He
felt the next step in the course of his art was to give his ideas figures to make them
more real and understandable, possibly the same way that the Greeks and Romans needed
their gods to have a human like manifestation.  In his Art 21
interview Ritchie talks about the relationship between figuration and abstraction
compared to the relationship between ourselves and everything else in the universe. 
Consequently, I would interpret The Dead: Belphegor as a 2D version
of what is going on between the installation and the viewer in Proposition
Player.

You can view the Art 21 interview with
Matthew Ritchie at href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1239615688">http://video.pbs.org/video/1239615688
.