It Was Your Age, It's Our Rage,
1999

Overall with pedestal: 48” x 52” x 8”

Media:

From the 3-part sculpture All Inventions Are Tragic Moments

 

Bone: Prehistoric Bison antiquus bone (Pleistocene period, 10,000 to 2 million years ago), sliced, hollowed out, and filled with melted vinyl record of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin”

 

Skull: Replica of a Nanosaurus Rex (Jurassic period, 156-145 million years ago), cast and filled with melted vinyl records of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney’s “Ebony and Ivory.”

 

Peace sign and rock: Fragment of a dinosaur egg shell, hand-cut and carved into a peace sign; metal backing clip, plaster, paint.

 

Amber: Amber deposit filled with fragments and shavings from John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s vinyl record “Give Peace A Chance”; amber fragments, polyester resin.

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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