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The Strongest of Us Are So Frail Still is a series of sculptural bouquets made for people or occasions- for the distant, demented and departed. The objects/sculptures act as memorails or trailmarkers, insisting on a follow-up or a search.
Top Left: For Johnny (Cash) beads, paper, photo copies, pins, black Sculpey flowers, lace, gold foil doilies, guitar strings from a Nashville preacher-man and paper
-to be taken to the burned down estate of Johnny Cash
Top Right: For the Dissatisfied, Sculpey bluebirds of happiness, wire glue and ribbon
-taken on my mail run at a job I hated
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For Lee, For Expectations (studio)
Above Left: For Lee, Laffy Taffy wrappers made into pinwheels,
Sculpey, pins, floral tape, wire, beads , leather, cigarettes (some smoked) from , Bill Martin grocery (East Nashville)
-not yet given to my neighbor Lee, but intended for him
Above Right: For Expectations, pins, magazine snippets of flowers, wire, glue, beads, fake flowers and ribbon
-installed at Cooper Union (NY) studio 2006, currently in Nashville studio
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Below Left: For Eva Hesse, beads, sketchbook pages, photo copies, art in america snippets, ribbon, pins, floral tape and wire
-taken on walks in East Village, left on Evas old Bowery studio building door in June, 2007
Below Right: For the Gaps, wire, gramdmothers teeth, metal, Sculpey, beads ribbon, dental floss, dental wax, magazine snippets, and paper
-bouquet accompanies me to dental apointments
For Eva Hesse, For the Gaps
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