
Five Engraved Mirrored Plexiglass boxes with LED lighting and sound, soil, electrical wires, shell casings
(Installation view)
30" x 13" x 8" & 10" ea. (approx. 35" x 65" x 10")
Journalist's observations recorded while walking through a hospital of dying soldiers during the 1861-1865 American Civil War, relevant today as young men lie dying in street battles in the contemporary United States.
Text:
"... the bodies of the living and the dead
ranged on either side and opposite . . . as far as the eye can reach.
Groans fill the air . . .
the air is fetid with the stench of wounds
and the rain is pouring down upon the thousands who yet lie . . .
upon the bloody ground."