Marcy Frantom is a scholar, who researches cemetery material culture and has a masters degree in English with a Folklore emphasis. She lives in northern Louisiana. She created this audio piece in 2003, about finding a bone of an astronaut in her garden, after the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia:
Her sister, Sylvia Frantom, (or Sylvan Frantom), is an artist, whose work I admired long ago, when I was in school with her in Chicago. I see now how her work was informed by her sister. Both were from Louisiana, and Sylvan treated materials, as if dust, which turned into words so complete, and instantaneous, that they appeared as if compelled by the authority of nature. I don’t know if she still does work as an artist; if so, I can not find any mention of it; though she did seem to lead a very private life, so it may be she does, just not publicly.
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