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urethane foam, wood, paper, acrylic paint,
steel, motor, strobe light
45 X 26 inches diameter
Courtesy: Collection of Howard and Judy Tullman, Chicago, Illinois
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IA character emerges from the center of a cake with only one slice
taken out of it. As the character advances it grows and heads toward
the observer. In the cake, the pages of a book are turned automatically.
At last, the character is struck by a truck that flies out of the
turning pages. The pages inside the cake are covered with a quote
from Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra, "Many die too late and a
few die too early." Generally a birthday cake is a symbol of celebration
and the passing of time. But in this work, Barsamian may express the
lofty attitude toward life that we should choose by ourselves our
destiny and the time of our death.
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July 28 (Friday) - September 10 (Sunday), 2000 [Finished]
Gallery A, D 
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