Sonic Monument to the Morning Dew
2024
Medium: Silver-nitrate, poplar, steel, marble, sand.
Dimensions: 24.00" × 126.00" × 24.00"
Price: $24,000
Description: Inspired by mirrored garden gazing balls made popular in Victorian England, this otherworldly silhouette is meant to reflect the people, the space, and landscape around it. This work honors the first line of The Grateful Dead’s pleading 1972 live cover of Bonnie Dobson’s 1961 iconic anti-war ballad, Morning Dew: "Walk me out in the morning dew, my honey." Standing at 9.5 feet tall in mirrored poplar with 1 foot of height per second of recording, rising from a bed of crushed stone, this is the largest ever piece in Brian Madden’s growing collection of Sonic Monuments.
