Who Will Mend Your Phantom Limb,
2007

9″ x 9″ x 1″

Media:

Excavated bullets from various wars cast into spools; hair salvaged from excavated lockets; homemade paper (cotton, passion flower); stretched audiotape of the earliest audio recording of time (experimental clock, 1878); 10,000-year-old flower trapped in amber; carved bone and ivory; lead-coated rose stem; braided hair, ribbon, mourning handkerchief, locket, photograph, cast lampblack, resin, typeset, and paint

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