18 boxes, 6 ft x 2 ft
paint, grass, wood, aluminum

Installed first at the 2003 Artists Against AIDS exhibition and then for 3 months between the Art and Design and Law buildings at the University of Illinois, this piece had a profound impact on many of its viewers.  A complete life cycle, from low grass to high to death to reseeding, it represented the approximate number of children under 12 to die of AIDS in 2002 (over 60,000).  Each blade of grass stood for a child, and the statistics were created using a method of sqare footage, approximately 3000 blades per square foot.  This is, unfortunately, a little too similar to the ways in which we estimate AIDS deaths.  Regions, places, times, but no concrete information.  A little too ironic, perhaps, but tragic nonetheless.