Dimensions variable
6-part framed sculpture
Homemade paper and envelopes made from cotton and bone dust from every bone in the body; wheat starch, written message, embossed text, ink, cold cast copper, bronze, brass, rust
There’s a Skeleton in Everyone of Us (Let Me Show You)
The Terror of Committing to Another (And the Sadness of Not)
A Human Being Unpeeling
You Will Outlive the One You Are Used to Loving
Humans Are Just Things Which Happen From Time to Time
The Universe Could Care Less
In 1977, NASA launched two probes with “Golden Records” representing Earth’s life and cultures, and edited to present humanity’s “best face forward.” Ancient Beacons Long for Notice—the third video in a trilogy—explores the challenge of representing humanity through a single object. What is our moral obligation to a “full accounting” of our actions in perpetuity, off-planet, and to unknown beings?
Commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.