I was asked by my sculpture teacher to make a monument. “A monument to what,” I asked? “Anything,” he answered. The only parameter seemed to be that the work was produced in wood. Having seen some interesting stone and marbleizing paints, I had the immediate idea to transform the wood into a marble-like appearance. Marble, for some reason, probably because it is the cemetery standard, seemed like the right medium for a monument to me.
All the students in the class intuitively thought of death-related concepts. A monument to death itself was suggested. A monument to failed works of art, another student offered. A monument to broken tools. Several students suggested something like coffins, since, well, they are made of wood. I thought of death too at first. I asked myself whom was I wanting to pedestalize, monumentalize, and memorialize.
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