Balm of A 1000 Foreign Fields,
2004

12 ¾” x 66” x 12 ¾”

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Homemade balm (almond oil, beeswax, home-cultured antibiotics, pollen from artillery plant, Death’s herb, rupturewort, winter’s bark, bugleweed, honeysuckle, sweet chestnut, Tree of Heaven root, life everlasting root, life root, bitter sweet, antler velvet, ground vinyl dust from Marlene Dietrich’s “This World Of Ours”); cast and carved bone dust from every bone in the body; dirt from various battlefields; WWI U.S. military medical blanket; iron salvaged from the sea; melted bullet lead, bovine cartilage, zinc, nickel, water-extendable resin, rust, walnut, typeset, glass

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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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