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I Wish The Ocean Sounded More Like Patsy Cline

1998

Seashells, altered sound of seashells

A collection of seashells were grouped into a series of pairs. Each couple was then serenaded with a different Patsy Cline song for 48 hours at a time. Each seashell’s partner was then either returned to the shore or used to make sand in The Words To All The Love Songs Start Making Sense When You’ve Gone Away

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The Words To All The Love Songs Start Making Sense When You've Gone Away

Photos, seashells, indigenous rocks, fish bones, crab shells, various debris

All these various seashore items were collected, hand-ground and sanded into homemade sand. The sand was returned to the shore, constructed into a sand castle and then left to collapse and be added back to the sea floor.

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