The gravestone-inscribed marble resembles living paper, even has a furred
quality as if it were an animal, and the surface undulations are quite
unlike carved stone.
Light is brought to the words: 'Now sleep and rest [... ] till Christ shall
bid thee rise. Blessed are the dead....' Despite their gravestone tone,
they're facing in towards what seems the tomb itself, not those outside. We
have, then, the irony of those who live being outside without the message,
and the one, presumably dead, for whom the message has been written.
The live room [the 'tomb'] stops short of a floor; we can see an opening,
and in the foreground, moss or other greenery replaces a conventional floor.
One can walk into or out of the 'tomb'.
It is a representation of life that appears to be a tomb---rather like a
message or promise to the viewer who is surely us as well as the one we
believe to be entombed.
Thanks, Peter, always a challenge and a fascination.
Judy
2008/12/9 Peter Ciccariello <[log in to unmask]>
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