Description:

Edition of 300 copies. Book enclosed in machine-sewn bubble wrap package, tied with brown ribbon yarn. Bound in green cloth with mixed media affixed to p. [1] of cover; closed with thread covered elastic band with sewn red leather pull. Four forty-page booklets sewn together + four 21 x 20 cm laminated sheets + 1 loose 27 x 21 cm laminated sheet + 1 loose 20 x 5 laminate sheet (bookmark). Lists the names, death dates, locations of graves, serial numbers and decorations of 5,328 American dead and missing World War II soldiers who are memorialized at the cemetery, one of fourteen such cemeteries in Europe. Photographs on loose laminated sheet document a related installation by the artist at Rockerill Marchienne au Pont, Charleroi, Belgium, February 2008.