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NY Trip: Whitney Biennial

Rebecca Belmore
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Clay and bullet casings

“To make the figure in this sculpture, a sleeping bag was draped to suggest the contours of a human body and then cast in clay. The thousands of empty bullet casings that surround the ceramic form become a protective barrier.”

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