Skeleton Wine, 1918,
2003

11” x 8” x 1 3/4”

Media:

Cast and carved bone calcium and bone dust from every bone in the body; home-brewed chrysanthemum wine (water, sugar, fermented black cherries, yeast, gelatin, tartaric acid, pectinase, sulfur dioxide, chrysanthemum petals, fortified with 100-year-old hemlock oil, Devil’s Claw, witch hazel bark, swamp root, powdered rhubarb, pleurisy root, belladonna root, white pine tar, coal tar, dandelion, sarsaparilla, mandrake, mullein, skullcap, cramp bark, ginseng, horny goat weed, tansy, sugar of lead, chalk, tin oxide, calcium, potassium, creatine, zinc, iron, nickel, copper, boron, vitamin K, crushed amino acids, chromium, magnesium, ironized yeast, ground pituitary gland, wisdom teeth, ground seahorse, shark cartilage, coral, castor oil); water-extendable resin, rust, typeset

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About the Work:

Component of a 5-part sculpture that includes Nihilist With a Dream, The Minor Chord Are Ours, A Maestro’s Moonshine, and Chrysanthemum Anthems.

 

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