Southern Bacteria,
2004

30 ½” x 22” x 22”

Media:

Excavated Civil War era military buttons, bullets, and buckles; an iron foot crafted by a wounded Civil War soldier; a newspaper fragment (August 15, 1945); bacteria cultured from dirt of southern battlefields; homemade tincture (spring and holy water, Devil’s shoestring root, Adam and Eve root, southernwood, Virginia snakeroot, ground venomous snake bone, cotton root, arrowroot, rupturewort, southern adder’s tongue, winter’s bark, Dead Sea salt); purpleheart wood, pigments, beeswax, rust.

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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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