23.5” x 16” x 13” overall with vitrine

Media:

Hair braids made from a stretched and curled audiotape recording of Sylvia Plath reciting November Graveyard; homemade paper (pulp made from soldiers’ letters to mothers and daughters from various wars, ink retrieved from letters, sepia); excavated and melted bullet lead; carved rib cage bone and ivory; mourning dress fabric and thread; mourning frame from another’s loss; silk, walnut, glass

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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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