Self-Taught Artist Thornton Dial

Thornton Dial
Souls Grown Deep Foundation

Out of Control, 2003
Another work made around the start of the war in Iraq, this assemblage of wood, tin, soil and other materials was inspired by reports of wildfires in California but at the same time refers to global chaos of all kinds.

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