Crucifix for the Home of My Sister

Materials:

detritus from a demolition project I worked on in KC

amaranth seed from the farm

frame and glass from the garbage heap

ginkgo leaf from the tree out front

gold paint

scrap of a tree from the field where we saw the eclipse

There's so much to be said about my time in Kansas City this summer. But I learned about ginkgo trees while I was there. How they survived Hiroshima, the only living organism to make it through.  Those same trees that survived are still standing, living fossils of resiliency.  Hibakujumoku, they are called: the survivor trees. 

 Ryan O'Neal says it like this: I see God in our damaged goods.

Wendell Berry says it like this: Practice resurrection.