Cast and carved bone dust from every bone in the body; feather made from a carved vinyl record of Florence Nightingale’s voice and stretched audio tape of nightingale bird love songs; homemade paper (pulp made from soldiers’ letters to sons and daughters from various wars, ink retrieved from letters); fragments of military uniforms and blankets from various wars; child’s spoon and fork excavated from a battlefield and coated with melted bullet lead; residue from female tears of mourning overlaid with residue from male tears of mourning; war widow’s mourning dress fabric and lace; hair flowers braided by a war widow; military photograph, military surgical suture thread, iron, brass, bone calcium, rust, walnut, typeset
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