TEJO, an interactive, floor-piece sculpture cast in concrete from the skin imprints of cadavers. TEJO takes both name and shape from a classic Spanish children’s game paralleling Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy where one must pass through a series of nine worlds before reaching paradise. Traditionally in the game Tejo, players toss a small object on the ground into numbered squares and then hop through various game-squares marked ‘Safe’, ‘Home’, or ‘Rest.’ In English, a variant of this game is known as “Hopscotch.”
3rd Image by Richard Caspole, Yale Center for British Art.
