Babyn Yar Requiem
Sculptural Project
Sponsored by the US-Ukraine Foundation
1701 K. Street NW- Suite 903
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-223-2228 Fax: 202-223-1224
2010
1st year- Stage 1
¼ scale working original sculpture
to then be cast for traveling exhibition to Museums
Total expenditures
$100,000
A monument of this complexity
is necessary to give impact to a genocide that is essentially invisible. Many
other places of mass killings have the buildings left as proof of the atrocities
that happened there. This particular genocide has nothing left to give visual
weight to its horrible fact. Kyiv doesn't want to acknowledge it; Jewish History
Museums overlook it. It will soon be forgotton in time...
I feel that I am the only sculptor who has the skill, the knowledge, the drive, and the emotional sensitivity to give this work the power that it needs. I eventually want this work to be installed on site in the Babyn Yar ravine. If that were to happen, the size of that work would be a 75 ft. diameter- with life-size bodies and a sidewalk that takes the viewer directly into the pit. To plan ahead for that, I will sculpt this 18ft. Monument with the additional intention of using scanning technology to help me in preparing for the Massive Final Version. Doing a little planning ahead will allow me to use this 18ft. Monument for the greater good of eventually creating the largest Holocaust Monument ever.
The
base will be a complex skeletal wooden structure that must break apart
precisely.
It will take 3 or 4 set builders 2 weeks to build.
Total cost for labor and materials of the pit armature will be $15,650.
I
will need clay.
Each 24"x 36" unit will require 50 pounds of oil-clay for sculpting the
bodies.
Total clay- 2700 lbs. At $3.00 per pound = $8,100.
Molds and tools and other materials (armature wire, pipes, hardware, fiberglass,etc) = $11,250.
My sculpting time for the thousands of bodies, including the woman escaping with her boy: It will take me (at least) 1625 hours at $40 an hour = $65,000.
Total = $100,000
