Homemade paper (pulp made from a poem a WWI soldier wrote while recovering in the hospital, dried and crushed chrysanthemum petals, crushed bloodroot, 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 a soldier’s poem.
Composed by Justin Boyd
About the Work:
Component of a 5-part sculpture that includes Nihilist With a Dream, Fatalism Sutures to a Memory (A Melody), A Maestro’s Moonshine, and Skeleton Wine, 1918.