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Label : The Dead Pearl Diver, Benjamin Paul Akers, 1858

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Day With(out) Art // World AIDS Day 2019 This piece of white marble was formed deep below the surface of the earth, over the course of millennia. In 1858, Benjamin Paul Akers transformed the slab into The Dead Pearl Diver. Over a hundred years later, his sculpture is still here. Paradoxically, Akers used the durable material of stone to represent his subject’s fragility and mortality. Stone memorials and graves have a similar dual symbolism. Not every life lost to […]