THE FINAL FRONTIER - LATE #6, Julia Child
Carved and painted wood, 1.75 inches high by 4.25 inches long by 1.75 inches deep.
FINAL FRONTIER - LATE #8, Fred Astaire
Carved and painted wood, 1.75 inches high by 4.25 inches long by 1.75 inches deep.
FINAL FRONTIER - LATE #27, Roy Lichtenstein
Carved and painted wood, 1 inch high by 4.25 inches long by 1.75 inches deep.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Composing in series, and often series within series, all of my projects from the past couple of decades have dealt with social issues, and more recently have embraced text as both content and image... The submitted images are from a project called THE FINAL FRONTIER - the overall title of a collection of a series investigating, in a visually acute and sometimes humorous manner, mortality. LATE is a group of small carved wooden coffins, highly painted and decorated, to commemorate some favorite illustrious people from the past.