chapter 19
Unintended Survivors
Sugar Skulls ★ Wax Sewing Fruits ★ Figural Candles ★ Figural Soaps ★ Mosquito Coils ★ Projectile Fire Extinguishers ★ Target Balls ★ Lightning Rod Balls ★ Cockamamies ★ Figural Fireworks
Sugar Skull (Calavera), 1995. Sugar paste, royal icing & metallic foil, 1 1/2" high. Atlixco, Mexico.
Unintended Survivors analyzes objects that were made to be destroyed. Their intended function terminated their existence. Function fulfilled, each of these unimpeachably stately or beautiful objects had been conceived to be destroyed (ex: figural soaps and candles, target balls, sugar skulls, fire grenades, wax sewing fruits, mosquito coils, lightning rod balls, cockamamies, figural fireworks).
