Vanitas is a fifty-two piece permanent installation in the Columbus Carnegie Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio. The work is based upon a interpretation of “vanitas,” a term referring especially to 17th century Dutch-Flemish still-life paintings in which bounty is symbolic of accumulated wealth and productivity, while also suggesting human vulnerability. The work includes symbols of written, spoken, and gestured language; mixed media including wood, bronze, aluminum, epoxy, Corian, steel ; the vaulted room is 40’ x 50’ x 23’; 1992.