The Pause Became Permanence
2005
Ink-dyed willow and ash, hair lockets made of stretched and curled audiotape recordings of the last known Confederate and Union Civil War soldiers’ voices, excavated and melted shrapnel from various wars, hair flowers braided by war widows, homemade paper (pulp made from soldier’s letters home sent by sea), lace and fabric from widow’s mourning dresses, colored paper, silk, ribbon, milk paint, glass, typeset
69” x 26” x 26”