What The Elegist Seeks You Will Surrender
2008
Ribbon, typeset, colored paper, fabric and thread from mourning dresses, 19th c. top hat, hair flower braided by a war widow intertwined with a stretched audio tape recording of Walt Whitman reciting his poem “America” (1889), melted excavated bullet lead from various wars, metal lockets, cartes de visite, ink-stained willow, glass
44" x 44" x 54 1/4"