A Sadness Silence Can't Touch
2005
Casts of Civil War-era “pain bullets” (bullets used by soldiers to bite on during surgery) made from dissolved audiotape recordings of poets’ voices, lace and fabric from mourning dresses, ink dyed yellowheart and ash, nickel, silver, milk paint, typeset
Walt Whitman – ‘America”
Lord Alfred Tennyson – “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
Siegfried Sassoon – “Died of Wounds”
T.S. Eliot – “The Wasteland”
Robert Graves – “In Procession”
Dylan Thomas – “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London”
David Jones – “In Parenthesis”
9 ½” x 14 ½” x 9 ½”