Fallen Birds
Assemblage, 2018
Silver platter, lichen samples from Attu, ptarmigan bones, era flight goggles, cloud imagery
10.5" x 9" x 3"
“Attu did not give the soldier much time in which to learn the rules of survival. Like a high-speed grindstone it polished men up, or ground them down, according to their toughness of body and spirit. Those who endured became hardened veterans almost overnight.”
-Brian Garfield, author of The Thousand Mile War
