Diary of a Resurrectionist (I'll Be Waiting For You) b/w A Mourner Learns to Relinquish the Lost, 2004
Each book 2” x 5 1/2” x 7”; with pedestal 48” x 21” x 20”
Media:
Photo albums: Cast and carved melted vinyl records of Jackie Wilson’s “Lonely Teardrops” and Irma Thomas’ “Time Is On Our Side / Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)”; homemade paper (pulp made from cotton and bone dust from every bone in the body); fragments of soldiers’ personal mirrors from various wars; cast and carved bone dust; bone calcium, amino acids, spirit of ammonia, myrrh resin, copper mica, water extendable resin, rust, pigments, velvet, bone glue, typeset
Photographs and tintypes: Antique “spirit photographs” (a detection of a ghost or spirit disturbance on photographic film)
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