A Sadness Silence Can't Touch,
2005

9 ½” x 14 ½” x 9 ½”

Media:

Casts of Civil War-era “pain bullets” (bullets used by soldiers to bite on during surgery) made from dissolved audiotape recordings of poets’ voices; lace and fabric from mourning dresses; ink dyed yellowheart and ash; nickel, silver, milk paint, typeset

 

Walt Whitman – America
Lord Alfred Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade
Siegfried Sassoon – Died of Wounds
T.S. Eliot – The Wasteland
Robert Graves – In Procession
Dylan Thomas – A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
David Jones – In Parenthesis

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About the Work:

Earliest waveform recordings of blood flowing from the heart and in the brain during sleep, dreaming, and various emotional states (1874-96).3-D printed in brass-plated stainless steel; lacquered maple, 22k gold leaf; video, waveform audio processing by Patrick Feaster

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