2003

Homemade paper (pulp made from a poem a WWI soldier wrote while recovering in the hospital, dried and crushed chrysanthemum petals, crushed blood root, sweet balsam, rose water, rose oil, peppermint oil, sunflower oil, dandelion oil, aloe juice, cotton), melted shrapnel and bullet lead, cold cast steel and brass, polyester resin, rust, bone glue, typeset

Original score for violin and fife composed for soldier’s poem.

Composed by Justin Boyd

18” x 11”