The Third Angel Sounded | The Degenerate Art of Nick Kushner

HEBREW - "Chaya Lea daughter of Ephraim Aharon"
Nancy's Jewish name and that of her father's ; A common adornment on Jewish gravestones.

Taken in August 2006 on an unexpected sojourn to the Philadelphia area. Photos of Nancy Spungen's grave in King David Cemetery which coincide a with two-part series based upon the legacies of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Though I have no immediate Jewish heritage, as well as my last being a common Jewish name, there were however four Kushner graves within the very same row as Nancy. The plastic flowers and speared Piglet were already present before I had arrived. Visiting Nancy was something I had long wanted to do and fateful in the sense that I was helping my brother's love life by driving him to upper Philadelphia, which happened to be not four miles away from her. Ominous also the fact of fortuitously and un-premeditatively visiting her grave can is visibly apparent within my portrayal of her.

I parked the car underneath the half-destroyed tree seen below before searching for her and listened to Sid performing at Max's Kansas City while leaving.