2004

Cast of a hand-carved wooden and iron leg that a wounded Civil War soldier constructed for himself made from The Shirelles’ “Soldier Boy” melted vinyl records and femur bone dust, fitted inside a pair of WWI military cavalry boots made from Skeeter Davis’s “The End of the World” melted vinyl records, oil can filled with homemade tincture (gun oil, rose oil, bacteria cultured from the grooves of Negro prison songs and prison choir records, wormwood, golden rod, aloe juice, resurrection plant, Apothecary’s rose and bugleweed), brass, rust, dirt from various battlefields, ballistic gelatin, white rose petals, white rice

21” x 80” x 20”