An Unknown AlmsHouse Woman

by Veronica Huacuja

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17.000 x 25.000 x 11.000 cm.

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An Unknown AlmsHouse Woman

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Veronica Huacuja

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Sculpture - Sculpture

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Title: An Unknown AlmsHouse Woman
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Resin painted with oil paints
Size: 25 (H) x 17 (W) x 11 (D) cm
Weight: 1400 g
Base: Concrete base painted with acrylics, varnished and enameled, steel rod
Base weight: 1190 g
Total weight: 2120 g
Series: 1 of 9
Year: 2023
Collection: Sculptures

Mark LoRusso, a historian and scientist at the New York State Museum, while an archeological equipment unburied from the cemetery Albany County AlmsHouse (1896-1926) the remains of this woman and so many other people, said: “What we’re seeing is a forgotten group.”

“After the excavation, each body was re-interred in individual caskets and not laid together again. A granite monument marks their mass burial with the inscription: ‘Here lie those once buried in the Albany County Almshouse Cemetery transferred to this site 2002 A.D.’ Additionally, a passage from Walt Whitman’s The Last Invocation is also imprinted: ‘Let me glide noiselessly forth; With the key of softness unlock the locks with a whisper, Set open the doors o soul.’” (1)

This is an homage I make to this unknown woman.

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1. University at Albany (2019). Albany County Almshouse Cemetery [Section 48, Lot 1]. Retrieved on August 12, 2023 from https://www.albany.edu/arce/Almshouse20.html

Bibliography.

New York State Museum (n.d.). The Science and Art of The Facial Reconstruction Process. Retrieved on August 12, 2023 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0LvImAGAg&t=1140s

The Washington Post (2002). Almshouse Residents' Story Unearthed. Retrieved on August 12, 2023 from
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/06/23/almshouse-residents-story-unearthed/b03dbe0a-f5b3-4d9f-b00e-d958159df780/

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August 12th, 2023

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