W4058
23.05.2011
Karl Jensen
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“Yet as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure: but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death;
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“Yet as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure: but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life: the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.”
-Moby Dick
The proposal is for an ossuary to hold the bones of Herman Melville. The ossuary is an expanded steel plate tripod that spans 470 feet across a tidal flat. The structure is accessible to visitors at low tide.
© Karl Jensen 2003
“Yet as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure: but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death;
...
“Yet as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure: but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life: the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.”
-Moby Dick
The proposal is for an ossuary to hold the bones of Herman Melville. The ossuary is an expanded steel plate tripod that spans 470 feet across a tidal flat. The structure is accessible to visitors at low tide.
© Karl Jensen 2003