The Last Lost Shipment of an Untested Life Potion, 2003

14” x 30” x 22”

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Cast and carved bone dust from every bone in the body; homemade moonshine (potato-based alcohol); wine elixir (water, sugar, fermented black cherries, yeast gelatin, tartaric acid, pectinase, sulfur dioxide, oak flavoring, and fortified with: aged holy water, angelica root, rosary vine, temple bells, Bishopwort, myrrh resin, prayer plant fig leaf, immortal root, carbon, chlorophyll, spirulina, brimstone, Devil’s backbone, Devil’s shoestring root, ground venomous snake bone, Virginia snakeroot, Devil’s club leaf, Dead Sea salt, hemlock, bloodroot, melted vinyl record droplets from Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is” and Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams”); homemade paper, pine, moss, rust, ribbon, water-extendable resin, typeset

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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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