Excavated shrapnel and bullet lead from various wars melted and coated onto holly tree branches; homemade paper (pulp made from telegrams of loss sent from overseas); battlefield dirt from various wars; homemade marigold wedding wine; hair flowers braided by a war widow; fragments of soldiers’ military uniforms and blanket wool from various wars; ribbon, lace, silk, willow, walnut

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War Pigeon With a Message (A Burden Nourished by Time)

WWII carrier pigeon message capsules; hair lockets made from a stretched and curled audio tape recording of Walt Whitman reciting “America”; military surgical suture thread; ground resurrection plant, battlefield soil