The piece is "the perfect son-rabbit boy." A performance prop that I made for a class at UNM in grad school, around 1996. I gave it to my mother, who lives in Houston. Well, the wood that I collected and milled for constructing the artwork was pine from the mountains of New Mexico. It didn't stand a chance with the Houston humidity and prevalence of wood munching insectums. So, a couple years later, the wood is dust to dust.
And, I have to add a couple more gems from the ol'days of grad school.
Just speeled about these fellows whilst teaching at TX State,
rant rant rant...poor student folks, ha!
These are the "Sheep Car" (4wheeled) and the "Sheep Cart"
telling the deep moving of logs, of log jams, of logs floating to the mouth of their river
the life is already gone from the sap which runs up and and down their legs and their cavities
which connected the earth to air.
the fire and soil are being denied what is their's and are screaming in pain and frustration
the life force is unfamiliar with the route, the routine has been displaced and the waterfall
has run dry
