Antique daguerreotype of a man with Rieger’s Syndrome (a malformed iris that prevents light from entering pupil to retina); ground trinitite (glass formed during the first atomic test explosion, circa 1945, at the Trinity test site, when heat from the blast melted the surrounding sand); homemade paper (pulp made from cotton, military sheet music, crushed chrysanthemums, amino acids, and bone dust from every bone in the body); a Civil War soldier’s personal mirror; Civil War-era inkwell, black amber, mortician’s powder, nickel, iron, colloidal silver, rust, velvet, American porcupine quill, walnut, and glass.
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