The Washhouse, Nothing Ever Happened Here
In this body of work Vote depicts and reproduces parts of a real-life aging washhouse, an outbuilding in which people once used to wash their belongings, in rural Iowa at near life size.
oil on wood
10 x 10 in
Grass
BY CARL SANDBURG
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
Wood and stain, found gravel and salt
7 x 7 x 5 ft
Oil on paper on wood
9 x 12 in
oil on clayboard
12 x 9 in
Oil on board
12 x 16 in
oil on wood
16×12 in
Oil on paper on wood
12×16 in
Oil on paper on wood
16 × 12 in
Oil on paper on wood
16×12 in
Oil on wood
16 x 9 feet