American Above-Ground Tunnel Carving

Size: 2m x 8m
Light: naphtha flames
Instrument used: a key

A gas mask for a man and a horse. A man wears a gas mask. It is the one with glass quarters for eyes and a trunk of rubber hose coming out. A horse must wear one that looks like a feed bag. The gas used was not something that killed anyone. It was an anesthetic released. Men struck by the gas would fall asleep. They would go down, and, then, men with masks--men safe from the anesthetic in the air--would remove the teeth of the down passed. Horses that did not wear masks would also down pass. Men with masks would remove the horses' hooves. They would remove the soft noses of the horses and wear them as epaulettes. Hoops around their arms. They were braggarts. They are braggarts. A sheath with an arm in it instead of an ornamental sword.