A Sadness Silence Can't Touch
Dario Robleto
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2005-2006, Casts of Civil War era “pain bullets” (bullets used by soldiers to bite on during surgery) made from dissolved audio tape 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”; Sigfried 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 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, Promised gift to the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
2005-2006, Casts of Civil War era “pain bullets” (bullets used by soldiers to bite on during surgery) made from dissolved audio tape 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”; Sigfried 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 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, Promised gift to the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas