This is an excerpt from "Smitten a love story about art" a film by Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto.Read Richard Reisman's full press releas about the piece.
Troy Simon Burdine II is Napa artist Richard Carters powerful, elegiac, tripartite piece memorializing the friend named in the title. When Troy Burdine was dying of AIDS, he approached Carter and asked that upon death, Richard cast him to form a whole body death mask, thus fulfilling Troys wish to be immortalized. It was also Burdines intention to help establish a greater awareness of AIDS through his posthumous collaboration with Carter. Troy passed away on October 27, 1997. Richard made the plaster cast of his body the following day. Troy was then cremated. Richard used the cast to form a clay body, which was fired in a wood burning kiln in April, 1998.
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February 09, 2010
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