Amidst the pandemic (disease everywhere), Pandemonium (evil everywhere). Watching my city lit up by flames and violence was like watching a volcanic eruption…fire, chaos, destruction, then an ash cloud that circled the earth. I can imagine the last words of many of the victims of Vesuvius must have been, “I can’t breathe.” Though the chaos manifests on our city streets, what’s really wrong is within our heads.
It was important to me to make a head that was literally made of ashes, so I cast this head from the residue of my backyard fire pit. Unfortunately, the binder I used proved inadequate to hold it together, so it will probably remain –appropriately– a work-in-progress.