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work > songs of the dark times (ongoing)

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
- Bertolt Brecht, The Svenborg Poems (1939)

Instructions (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire; 23 x 51 x 2)


Instructions (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)


Instructions (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)


Kerosene Beauty (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire; 23 x 51 x 2)


Kerosene Beauty (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)


Score for Unexploded Ordnance and Depleted Uranium (wood, wire, sheet music, graphite on gessoed paper, thread; 26 x 29 x 5)


Score for Unexploded Ordnance and Depleted Uranium (detail) (wood, wire, sheet music, graphite on gessoed paper, thread)


Coals (earth, charred timber, mixed media on gessoed board, lead, thread; 39 x 51 x 17)


Coals (earth, charred timber, mixed media on gessoed board, lead, thread)


21 grams (scrap wood, wire, galvanized roofing, thread; 59 x 29 x 11)


21 grams (detail) (scrap wood, wire, galvanized roofing, thread)


Window (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire; 23 x 51 x 2)


Window (detail) (wood, mixed media on gessoed board, steel rod, wire)


Unnamed (wood, sheet music, galvanized roofing, steel rod; 42 x 36 x 8)


Unnamed (detail)


War Diaries: barrel bomb (scrap wood, plaster, black iron oxide, red iron oxide; 25 x 12 x 12)


War Diaries: shallow burial (scrap wood, plaster, clay, thread; 21 x 12 x 12)


War Diaries: shallow burial (detail)


War Diaries: mined (scrap wood, plaster, plaster, clay, thread, red iron oxide, black gesso; 23 x 16 x 9)