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She Keeps Writing Letters She Knows He Won't Recieve

2008

5-part sculpture, objects listed left to right
She Keeps Writing Letters She Knows He Won’t Receive
Feather made of stretched audiotape of the voice of the oldest woman to ever live (122 years), embossed homemade paper (cotton, ground fulgurites, ground passion flower), homemade ink stain
An Ink Of Rust and Tears
Rust, tear water, 19th c. traveling inkwell, leather, glass, typeset
Words Tremble With The Thoughts They Express
19th c. gutta percha inkwell, feathers made of stretched audiotape of the heartbeats of two lovers as they reflect on each other, homemade ink (homemade lamp black, ground fulgurites [glass produced by lightning strikes when heat from blast melts surrounding sand], arrowroot, cuttlefish sepia), volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helen’s
Embossing Pale Paper
Embossed homemade paper (cotton, ground fulgurites, ground passion flower)
Dust Accumulates On A Mislaid Parcel
Embossed homemade paper (cotton, ground fulgurites, ground passion flower), ground cuttlefish sepia and black amber, bone black, volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helena, 19th c. pressed flowers, hand carved bone button, 19th c. braided lover’s hair, written messages, typeset, twine

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