Living With Death As Something Intimate And Natural / The Artillery of Heaven, 2005

36” x 36” x 4”

Media:

Oak tree twig carved from a dissolved audio tape recording of an unborn child’s heartbeat and a loved one’s last heartbeats; flowers picked on foreign battlefields sent home by soldiers from various wars; thread and fabric from military uniforms from various wars; mourning dress fabric and thread; veteran’s mason jar, mourning handkerchief, pigments, water-extendable resin, willow, glass.

 

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The Artillery of Heaven
Casts of excavated fired bullets and spent shell casings from various wars made with ground fulgurites (glass produced by lightning strikes when heat from the blast melts surrounding sand); cold cast lead and aluminum; battlefield sand and soil from various wars; rust

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