In the final exhibition of Box (a proposition for ten years) in 2024, a model of a ship made of bones sits atop its founding compartment. Paintings of the “bone ship” reappear throughout the gallery. In the paintings, a bone ship is surrounded by stairs, a ladder, and a cup. Oil paintings are held together by intricately hand-carved walnut frames with an x-pattern, made by Fernández and her late grandfather, Jose Luis Carcedo. Shaped bone is inlay into the walnut. The number three (represented by hands) appears in multiple forms, representing past, present, and future (or birth, life, and death).

The model of Bone Ship, a planned posthumous work, arose from a conversation between Chung and Fernández in 2017, as a plan for a sculpture that would be constructed with their bones and those of their friends and allies, after death. This vessel would then carry future descendents to a communal destination.

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Box (a proposition for ten years)