What Spoils the Fountain Poisons the Well - ALEX ZAK

What Spoils the Fountain Poisons the Well
2021
9.5ft x 10ft x 12ft
Pine, plywood, sheetrock, paint, screws, mirror, ceramic, cultured and plastic pearls, sword, plastic bead necklaces

A large fountain/bath structure made from wood and sheet rock, adorned with mixed materials. a rusted spanish rapier is lodged in a step in the fountain, adorned with plastic bead necklaces.

A Spanish rapier embedded into a sheet rock step, looking out from behind into the gallery at some of Alex Zak’s other works.

Three Ascending windows in Spanish colonial style are carved into a sheetrock wall that a fountain is backed by, terrazzo like details from mixed materials embedded in sheetrock.

A detail of the fountains steps, sheetrock that is cut to emulate tile, crumbling from the process.

A detail of the fountain against the back wall. Sheetrock pieces are mosaiced into a crumbling fountain’s interior.

A detail of the interior of the fountain bottom, where the sheetrock crumbles severely and the structure seems at its utmost stage of precarity. Because of the sheetrock, it is powdery and very dry.