Twin Stacks

Matthew Talbot-Kelly

2020

Gf-6737

A. glass bell jar
B. wooden base
C. coiled birch bark
D. stories from the iliad cover
E. aluminum fragment
F. ceramic fragment
G. ceramic fragment
H. photo of someone’s boy
I. torn postcard
J. rusted can
K. crab shell
L. tiny pinky-purple balls
M. bread clamp
N. coiled wire

Used primarily as a medicine jar in the children’s ward in Ottawa’s Tuberculosis Hospital in the early 1900’s.

she stood long and strong, with subtle curves and bright eyes and she stands strong, and sturdy regardless, of the buzzing uncertainty trapped within… the recalcitrant heart, of the matter… clothed only in ideas, among a laughing crowd, fulfilled by jeers, at what another wears,