Julie Green's 'The Last Supper': 1,000+ Death Row Final Meals
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Julie Green's The Last Supper spans 1999 to 2021 and comprises over 1,000 mass-produced ceramic plates painted with cobalt blue mineral pigment, each recording a death row inmate's final meal request. Green sourced the records directly from U.S. prisons, and the plates note date and state but no names. The scope runs from the mundane to the heartbreaking: one plate records a birthday cake ordered for a man who never had one; another, dated 1945, bears chicken drumsticks and watermelon beside the note 'He was only 15.'
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