Stitched Deaths: Anne Sexton

(d. Oct. 4, 1974)

Left behind on the gate of the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library after a performance at the Aviary Gallery in homage to the poet.

Quote is from "Letter Written on a Ferry Crossing Long Island Sound"
"I am surprised to see/that the ocean is still going on"

  

Stitched Deaths: Sylvia Plath

(d. Feb. 11, 1963)

Placed in the Evelyn B. Morris Great Room in Eleanor Roosevelt Hall, University of Rhode Island, North Kingstown, RI.

Quote is from the last line of Plath's 'Love-Letter'

Stitched Deaths: R. Budd Dwyer

(d. Jan. 22, 1987)

Placed in the the studio at RI PBS.
Quote is from the prepared text that Dwyer did not read at his final press conference.

Stitched Deaths: Darby Crash

(d. Dec. 7, 1980)

Placed in Spike's Hot Dogs, Cranston, RI

Quote is Crash's suicide note.

Stitched Deaths: Lee Harvey Oswald

(d. Nov. 24, 1963)

Placed in the Avon Cinema, Providence, RI
Third row from the back, fifth seat in (Oswald was arrested in this seat at the Texas Theatre)

Quote is from his diaries.

(A shot in the dark is hard to come by. I'm lucky to have gotten any photographs at all. The usher asked, "Is that yours?," seeing the pillow sitting in the seat. I said yes and proceeded to the exit quickly, after she turned her back.)