"Epitaph" Installation
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Epitaph
Temporary site specific installation
Sand City, California
Dates: July 1988
5” tall x 15’ wide x 10’ deep
Cement, clay, oils, rebar, asphalt, cow skull.
In my guerrilla artist mode, I’d gone into the sand quarry surreptitiously to set up this Epitaph installation as a commentary on the perils of uncontrolled human expansion. In this vignette, rebar trees rise out of the dry earth from bases of asphalt, a cow skull nearby marks the evidence of life that had once ranged across the fertile fields. Clay forged fossil remnants appear as a warning on a tombstone of cement building materials in the center. Alas, this experience was cut short upon my discovery, with only these images being captured.