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W4058
23.05.2011
Karl Jensen
WWW
  • “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

    “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