"Epitaph" Installation

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.

More on the Epitaph sculpture, here.