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When you sculpture heads, as Daniel Edwards does, you never expect an artistic gift like the news that Ted Williams’s head had been removed and frozen, along with his separated trunk, at a cryonics laboratory in Arizona.
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One of three “death masks” of Ted Williams’s head by the sculptor Daniel Williams, at the First Street Gallery in Chelsea.
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“It never left me,” Mr. Edwards said, referring to the severing of the head. “I was shocked.”
The shock prompted a prankish idea: why not make three plaster “casts” of Williams’s head – like Napoleon’s death masks, he said – arrange them with objects that relate to his career and final resting place in a steel tank filled with liquid nitrogen at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit, and promote them as sports collectibles?
“I have an affection for ghoulish work, so I’m the perfect guy to do this,” Mr. Edwards said the other day at the First Street Gallery on West 26th Street in Chelsea, where the Williams heads await an exhibition that opens tomorrow.