Agave Installation View, 2001   Agave, skull fragments, horsehair, beeswax, wood, glass, wire 180x120x48" — Agave Installation View, 2001 Agave, skull fragments, horsehair, beeswax, wood, glass, wire 180x120x48"

The Agave, apocryphally known as a century plant, allegedly blooms only once every 100 years. Fishman's sculptural installation pairs an agave plant in bloom with skull fragments, juxtaposed with the agave's sister plant suspended in limbo. The plantlets that dropped to the ground for propagation were re-attached to the mother-plant and sustained in vials of water (see detail images below).