A Pure Form of America

Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro covers a bed with sliced ham
at a gallery in New York Thursday, June 3, 2004. Cavallaro, 41, the son
of immigrants from southern Italy, said the ham he was using is "a
pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiled and pressed together." Despite
his Italian heritage and training in an Italian art school, Cavallaro
said he had rejected Prosciutto because "It would have been pompous." (AP
Photo/Tina Fineberg)

from AP