The Kent Four

"After considering the manner of death, four rifle barrels, I took these symbols of destruction and turned them into four new emblems for the viewer to ponder:

• A trumpet of deliverance, judgment, and freedom ... the ancient Hebrew Ram's Horn, Schofar
• A dialogue between Man and God. The central unit of the memorial is the symbol I; it faces directly upwards, stating the unity of God, also our submission to His Will. On the large outward-facing arms are small hooklike attachments which, together with the large forms, form the ideogram four times, another reminder of Him at the moment of death. El Shaddai, the All Nourisher ...
• (a) Signs of personal, private grief, four small flame elements enclosed by two large arms of steel; (b) Signs of public grief, four outward flame elements;
• Individual, but grouped memorial flame containers, indicating that man dies alone; however, in this instance, death was identical and communal."

Other images of the sculpture may be found in Box 109 of the May 4 Collection.

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