Nihilist With a Dream,
2003

42” x 32” x 16”

Media:

Case: cast ballistic gelatin; cold cast zinc, copper, brass, nickel, and steel; sulfur, diatomaceous Earth, leather, alligator skin, rust, pigments, violin resin, velvet, water-extendable resin

Violin, fife, and chair: cast and carved dehydrated bone calcium; melted shrapnel and bullet lead; dirt from various battlefields; Civil War-era rosewood folding camp chair; bone charcoal, bone oil, collagen, ground ivory, horse hair, antler velvet, music stand

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About the Work:

Component of a 5-part sculpture that includes The Minor Chords Are Ours, Chrysanthemum Anthems, A Maestro’s Moonshine, and Skeleton Wine,1918.

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