Specifications: Caribbean Buoy, cardboard, plaster, cow bell,, 15 x 20 overall.

Description: Orange tower to be carried by four people in a sea of others, with a cow bell ringing in alarum. To raise awareness about the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America. Caribbean Buoy was first carried at a rally againstU.S. Intervention in Latin America, Washington Mall, Washington, DC in 1983; exhibited at at P.S. 1 for Art & Urban Resources, L.I.C., NY in 1984 and at the Whintey Bienniel, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1985
Barbara Westermann has created a splendid series of sculptures whose cool, shimmering surfaces reveal an interplay of complex ideas. Her art embraces intellectual experience and the intense physicality of making art by hand. That Barbara makes art in her home, yet retains a distinct identities says much about her shared desire for a transcendent politics and a more generous community in which marriage encourages mutual respect and a connection to a larger world, not shelter from it. In the past, this connection would have been strengthened by sacrament, but these times demand new rituals, a different kind of inspiration.

Patricia Spears Jones, Poet, Playwright, author of The Weather That Kills