Collection New England Biolabs. 2001–2004. In my concern with the ill use of religion to fuel the fires of hatred, I assigned myself the task of reading the entire Bible in the summer of 2000. I bought two worn and damaged copies of the King James Bible, and, as I read each page, tore it out and glued it down to the canvas, covering the surface. As I finished each layer, I covered it with a layer of burnt paper. When I finished the first Bible, I used the second to build a tower of both hope and despair. I then worked the surface with paint, pastel, photographic negatives and found objects. The tower is, in part, a Tower of Babel, in part a monument to distress, in part a ritual mound for mourning.