These porcelain multiples were cast from a rung removed from the back of a wooden chair that has been in my family for several generations. Like photographs in a family archive, this chair is a saved artifact and index to the past. Images on the surface are taken from a family album. The text is a 13th century Latin poem, which for hundreds of years was part of the Mass on the Day of Death or Day of Burial in the Catholic liturgy. I am still haunted by the beautiful Gregorian Chant of the Dies Irae.