Grave for Alvin and Elizabeth Boyarsky
The grave comprises three elements: stone, tablet and base. The headstone is made of cast glass. This method yields a glass which is opaque until polished, and which is alive with flaws and air bubbles(by-products of intense heat and slow annealing). To look into it is both to see through it and to be diverted by impurities and by the shadows they cast. The headstone is wedged into the concrete tablet. Name, date of birth and other information has been cast into this tablet. The base establishes a new ground plane, once removed from the earth, and is indented with points that mark key dates. These are touched by the shadow of the headstone, which acts as the gnomon (the pin of traditional sun dials).
The grave can be visited at the Liberal Jewish Cemetary, Hoop Lane, Willesdon, London.
GlassBox
A glass box with glass walls, floor and roof with laminated glass beams.
