5-part sculptural installation on wood and velvet case, plexiglas; objects listed left to right

She Keeps Writing Letters She Knows He Won’t Receive:

Feather made of stretched audiotape of the voice of the oldest woman to ever live (122 years); embossed homemade paper (cotton, ground fulgurites, ground passion flower); homemade ink stain

An Ink of Rust and Tears:

Rust, tear water, 19th c. traveling inkwell, leather, glass, typeset

Words Tremble With the Thoughts They Express:

19th-century gutta-percha inkwell; feathers made of stretched audiotape capturing the heartbeats of two lovers as they reflected on each other; homemade ink (lamp black, ground fulgurites [glass formed by lightning strikes when heat from the impact melts the surrounding sand], arrowroot, cuttlefish sepia); volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helens.

Embossing Pale Paper:

Embossed homemade paper (cotton, ground fulgurites, and passion flower)

Dust Accumulates on a Mislaid Parcel:

Embossed homemade paper (cotton, ground fulgurites, and passion flower); powdered cuttlefish sepia; ground black amber, bone black, and volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helens; 19th-century pressed flowers and braided lover’s hair; hand-carved bone button; written messages, typeset, twine