"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Ladder for Booker T. Washington" (detail; 1996)
Ladder for Booker T. Washington, detail, 1996
Ash and maple; 438 x 22 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches
Installation view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson, by exchange
Production still from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 2 episode, "Time," 2003
© Art21, Inc. 2003
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