Artist # 9

Christian Boltanski born in 1944 is a French photographer, sculptor painter and a installation artist.  Much of his work deals with death, memory and loss. Many of his painting were primarily of things with historical signifigance, by the 70's he moved away from the painting medium, and started working on things that were relevant to his own life and that had meaning in it. Here are some quotes by him:
"We are all so complicated, and then we die. We are a subject one day, with our vanities, our loves, our worries, and then one day, abruptly, we become nothing but an object, an absolutely disgusting pile of shit. We pass very quickly from one stage to the next. It's very bizarre. It will happen to all of us, and fairly soon too. We become an object you can handle like a stone, but a stone that was someone."
"I began to work as an artist when I began to be an adult, when I understood that my childhood was finished, and was dead. I think we all have somebody who is dead inside of us. A dead child. I remember the Little Christian that is dead inside me."