Choice Effects Outcome (Completed David Canvas)

This is the curtain, with transfers onto muslin of the pictures of David's car after the accident. I used metal alphabet brads to spell out CHOICE EFFECTS OUTCOME. [The name of the piece is "David Brown, C.E.O."] It's hung on small silver hooks over the toilet level, and the hooks stay on because I stuck a rubber basketball on a keyring at the end. Inside the black pouch on the top left are all the pieces of glass, car paint, headlights, a cutting from David's covered-in-blood shirt, the paper we got at Surgical ICU with the visiting hours, that sort of thing.

When the curtain flips over the top, to the back, you have the canvas itself.They only let us visit in 30-minute increments, four times a day. The first two times we went, David was drugged out, sleeping. "What happened, Mom?" are the first words David said to me, the third time we went down to see him.

David said, 'This is awesome, Mom, oh my god!'