Proposals for The Late Work

The Late Work is a show curated by Kevin Zucker and Christopher Ho. Both artists are also RISD professors. Some of their former students made proposals for pieces that hypothetically, are supposed to represent their late works. These are my proposals.

1. Requiem for a Transition - a Sketch. The images included refer to animal species that have become extinct during Kevin Zucker's Lifetime. The diagrams are of frames used for dunnage in cargo. The latter imagery becomes a reappearing element in Zucker's paintings.

2. Marzipan Boxes. Ten wooden boxes containing marzipan confections shaped like fetuses in different stages of development. They are arranged in the style of Ernst Haeckel’s 1874 illustration from Anthropogenie. The artist selects 70 of the most important people in human history according to his own criteria. The embryos are then labeled with the given names of those individuals. Christopher K. Ho believes in the inevitable obliteration of history and humanity in the distant future. The boxes of edible icons mimic the hypothesis of embryological parallelism while highlighting the inevitable perishability of the human race.