Photo Sculpture: Outside America

In the fall of 1974, I spent a week on the island of Skorpios with the famous shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Once I got back to New York, I selected my 50 best photos of the island and had them individually embedded into 2” × 2” × 1” plastic cubes. A hole drilled in each one enabled me to knot them together with a leather lanyard into a flexible sculptural piece which can be laid out in ever-changing forms.

My intention was to give this conceptual art piece to Ari on his next visit to New York, but he died four months later and I never saw him again. So I called Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, met her at her Fifth Avenue apartment, and donated it to her in the beach bag you see on the photo. The sculpture, with all the photos of Skorpios she loved so much, pleased her to no end, and she laid it out on a coffee table in the study.

But now, since Jackie passed on, the sculpture has vanished, disappeared. Where is it? Who has it? Can I get it back? I would so love to retrieve it for a permanent place in my archives at the Hillwood Art Museum. Can anyone out there tell me: WHERE IS MY SCULPTURE?