ABSTRACT
The subject of Endings is “happy endings”—like the end of smallpox or airborne lead pollution. Each tubular piece is an abstraction of a graph representing a generally desirable ending: polio has been nearly eliminated; wars—counterintuitively—are less frequent, less deadly, and far less expensive since the end of the Cold War. The sculpture is, in short, a random catalog of good news should a viewer be interested. Each tube has a small number stamped in its end, and a printed guide shows both the original graph and a representation of its sculptural abstraction, as well as dimensions and sources.
