NEW YORK -- Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro regards his finished work of art, a bed with more than 300 pounds of sliced ham, at a gallery in New York. Cavallaro, 41, the son of immigrants from southern Italy, said the ham is "a pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiiled and pressed together." Despite his Italian heritage and training in an Italian art schook Cavallaro said he had rejected Prosciutto because "It would have been pompous." (06/03/04 AP photo)