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  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book, 1991.
  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book, 1991.
  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book (page detail), 1991.
  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book (page detail), 1991.
  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book (page detail), 1991.
  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book (page detail), 1991.
  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book (page detail), 1991.
  • The Slow Death of Rose, Artist Book (page detail), 1991.

The Anatomy Lesson: The Slow Death of Rose

After the sudden death of Eddy, his wife Rose did her dying ever so slowly, in a leisurely retreat. She regressed in small, barely visible strokes, wandering through her memories, confessing her secrets, one by one. Hers was an almost typical story of Eastern European immigration from the pogroms of Poland, to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, to the family brownstone homes of Brooklyn. She remembered her father taking them off the boat. “You came to Ellis Island,” she said. “they examined you and if you had any sickness or sores they sent you back. You had to be perfect.

Artists Books:

  • Overview for Artist Book Gallery
  • The Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling The Fasciculus Medicinae
  • From The Anatomy Lesson:
  • The Anatomy Lesson: The Slow Death of Rose
  • The Anatomy Lesson: The Sudden Death of Eddy
  • The Anatomy Lesson: Newborns
  • The Anatomy Lesson: The Dead
  • Alphabet of Bones: Published in Germany
  • Alphabet of Bones: Nameroom
  • Alphabet of Bones: Three Cages
  • Alphabet of Bones: Into Flight
  • Alphabet of Bones: Miniature of Alphabet of Bones
  • From Public Projects
  • Before 2000
  • Publications
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