13 ¾” x 11 ¾”
Homemade paper (pulp made from military sheet music and cotton, infused with home-brewed chrysanthemum wine and ground laurel leaves); cold cast nickel, silver, zinc; melted bullet lead, water-extendable resin, rust, bone glue, typeset
Component of a 5-part sculpture that includes Nihilist With a Dream, Chrysanthemum Anthems, Fatalism Sutures to a Memory, and Skeleton Wine, 1918.