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The Creative Potential Of Disease

2004

A self-portrait doll made by a Civil War union soldier amputee while recovering in the hospital, mended and repaired with a modern day surgeon’s surgical needle and thread, new pant leg material made from a modern day soldier’s uniform, cast leg made from femur bone dust and prosthetic alginate treated with Balm Of A Thousand Foreign Fields, vegetable ivory, collagen, melted shrapnel and bullet lead, cold cast steel and zinc, polyester resin, rust

12”x 9 ¾” x 1”

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