Six-part sculpture with prints on paper; each frame made from melted bullet lead, cold cast nickel and silver, rust, and polyester resin
Bird of Peace Is Fair Game
Homemade paper (cotton infused with white chestnut, dove bone dust, meadowsweet); bone glue, typeset
7” x 7” x 1”
On a Wing and a Prayer
Homemade paper (cotton infused with sundew, dandelion, pigeon bone dust); bone glue, typeset
5” x 5” x 1”
A War Poet’s Scorn
Homemade paper (pulp made from a war poem a Civil War soldier wrote while recovering in the hospital, bugleweed, artillery plant pollen, shrapnel shavings); bone glue, typeset
9” x 7” x 1”
War Pigeons Welcome Their Lady Home
Homemade paper (pulp made from a war poem a Civil War soldier wrote while recovering in the hospital, sweet balsam, pigeon bone dust); bone glue, typeset
9” x 8” x 1”
A Deserter Is Honored
Homemade paper (cotton infused with blood root, rosewater, bugleweed); bone glue, typeset
6” x 6” x 1”
War Wreaths Set on Fire
Homemade paper (cotton infused with ground laurel leaves, chrysanthemum ashes, tincture of poppy, blessed thistle); bone glue, typeset
9” x 8” x 1”
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.