Couple (after L.B.), 2024

Red Oak plywood, muslin, cotton, bb’s, running out of ammunition, remnants of gifted eyes, blue marbles from a secret beach, silver leafed pie weights, gold leafed pie weights, stand alone pie weight, one white pebble, one head from a ceramic doll, broken at the neck, sewn in a sack, whittled spider leg, standing down, handmade lead tubing, handmade lead basket, pink ceramic wedge, crazing, rescued pencil eraser, feather from my comforter, half way out the door, a nipple, two bronze shims, two gold leafed rocks from Bard, two accidental tombstones, white milk paint, two “specchi”, someone else’s paint, someone else’s gesture, porcelain double coil pot, punched, torn, salt fired, etched away, brass, clock pendulum from the flea market, a memory, Hydrocal styrofoam, wrapping from my broken left foot, compression, not being needed anymore, spooning rocks, the other nipple, half his washcloth, steel, latex, print of a Limestone votive ear from The Met, crumpled, punctured, hysteric, a year’s worth of castings, surprise finger, the end.

60 1/2 × 60 1/2 in | 153.7 × 153.7 cm