Image

Steve Mendelson

#2,

Description

Maker

Title

#2

Medium

ink

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.6 cm (10 x 8 1/8 inches) (sheet)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

On verso: In ink at the top of the page, 2 encircled. Inscribed, LR, ink: "An oath was taken / an oath of blood, / I know nothing of it other than / I was the sacrifice, and that / I only knew as I felt my sphincter tore / and my mind explode as the three raped / me, [illegible] My sanity and my life were / torn away and I was left the shell I am / awaiting death anxiously as a nervous bride / this drawing began [...] in 1987 completed in 1994, the last years of my life 4/23/94." Signed by the artist.

Type

Credit

Gift of Kenneth and Carol Mendelson

Object Number

2010.97.3

About

#2
The Song of Amergin

On verso: In ink at the top of the page, 2 encircled. Inscribed, LR, ink: "An oath was taken / an oath of blood, / I know nothing of it other than / I was the sacrifice, and that / I only knew as I felt my sphincter tore / and my mind explode as the three raped / me, [illegible] My sanity and my life were / torn away and I was left the shell I am / awaiting death anxiously as a nervous bride / this drawing began [...] in 1987 completed in 1994, the last years of my life 4/23/94." Signed by the artist.

Use

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