Jeffrey Schiff

 

"...if ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken..."

 
   

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Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University
Year: 1989
Materials: steel, lead, lead wire, limestone
Dimensions: 24' x 21' x 19'

A steel rack supporting 19 steel spools of various sizes is mounted 24 feet up on the back wall of the room. A wavering line of lead wire descends from each spool; the lines cross as they traverse the space. The lead wires submerge into once-molten reservoirs of lead in fractured limestone slabs strewn across the floor.