In response to Matt’s plans for a two-year project in which he would melt and burn objects within a complex multi-media sculptural installation, a reader asks Matt whether he is worried the piece will give off a rancid stench, like a burned-down house.

Matt responds:

The exploration of this two-year project is foreign territory for me.  I have no idea what’s going to happen.

But your idea that it will stink to high heaven is intriguing to me.  The ramifications are endless!

Maybe we’ll have to hold handkerchiefs to our face or put on gas masks when we look at it.

I suppose some government official will take 10 years to figure out how to display it!

A hundred years from now, they’ll be still figuring out how to get rid of the Lamb stench, which continues to stink up and agitate the world.  It could be my crowning joy.

Maybe they could bury me inside it.  It could be my mausoleum, and inside would be my skeleton.  Wouldn’t that be great?

Your comment has opened up a whole other world of possibilities.

Thank you immensely.

Matt