(2014) Dimensions variable. Hand-blown glass boiling flask and candlestick, etched float glass, cinderblock, water, candles, flame, shadow.
A piece of ⅛” float glass leans against a white wall in a dark room. It is etched with the outline of a tombstone and the epitaph, “Alexander Rosenberg, He Tried,” divided into three rows of type. A candle burns and through the lens of a large spherical glass vessel filled with water, its flame is projected onto the etched sheet glass allowing the type, invisible on the surface of the glass, to be read as a shadow. The flame illuminates one line of type at a time and moves slowly, as the candle burns down, making it nearly impossible for a viewer to read the entire inscription.
