Unknown Undead

Materials, Branches, Twine and Paper

2’7″ Tall

The piece is about how one philosophical death when the last preserved piece of a person is done. This is done through the metaphor of a zombie as a form of humanity that is both living and dead.The recipe on the arm is one from a person I never physically met so it is all I know of that person. If I was to let the recipe decay fall away it would be a final death. The recipe on the outside is also one that I really despise by letting it decay and I feel as if I’m trying to put the thing I grew up with behind me, to lay it to rest which in a way is probably for the best. The inside skeleton is made of twigs tied together by yarn. The idea of this piece is both to lament that lost knowledge but remember that in the end it will go back to nature by decaying the last living bit of the person laying them to their final rest. All the materials were meant to decay in order make it lose pieces over time as if it was a zombie so at one point you would see this top layer which would break off in parts to reveal a little bit of the layer underneath and the layer under that until nature has taken its course and the piece has complete a pseudo metamorphosis. The end result is supposed to be indicative of both death but the nature that comes after with the branches being the beginning of a new tree, a tiny sprout a new life grown from old paper turned back into its base component.