Avi Saliman, Study For Remembering (Short Pain, Short Grief), 2023-2025

Graphite, mat board, gridded paper, tissue paper, brass, copper, spray paint, polyurethane

19 x 19 inches

Unscrambled, the lines read “Short Pain, Short Grief, Dear Babe Were Thine, How Joys Eternal And Divine”. They come from a grave of a baby who died in the late 1800s in a town deep in the San Juan mountains in what was at that time, the newly formed state of Colorado. She never knew anything about that.