Bell and Ganassi

THE CORPSES-Utility Vehicles, 2005-2007

Text, cutouts, penguin stickers, tape, and acrylic on paper

11 x 8.5 inches, unframed

Signed, dated, and inscribed by the artists

Snippets of text from unfinished poems, Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” and “The Golden Ass” (“The Metamorphoses of Apuleius”) surround a Sphinx presenting a riddle to two penguins. Because she is a Sphinx, their answer will be a matter of life and death.