Love Has Value Because It's Not Eternal , 2008
Hand blown glass beakers, stretched audio tape of field recordings of the sound of glaciers melting (2005-06) intertwined with audio tape of various lovers recording their partner's heartbeats as they reflected on each other, ground passion flower, amber, eternal flower, resurrection plant, silk, satin, leather, ribbon, brass, iron, cork, pine, typeset
A Phantom Attempts to Sing as She Once Did on Earth, 2004
Carved de-carbonized bone calcium and bone dust from every human bone in the body, dehydrated bone calcium, ground amino acids, reel to reel audio loop of a female ghost humming a lullaby made from an E.V.P. recording (Electronic Voice Phenomena: voices and sounds of the dead or past, detected through magnetic audio tape) recorded at Gettysburg on a Civil War reenactment date, melted bullet lead, rust, velvet mahogany, fir, water extendable resin, typeset
11 x 2 x 11 inches
A Ghost Nurse Still Needs to Care, 2004
Vintage military hospital invalid feeders cast and carved from bone dust from every bone in the body, home-brewed honey infused with water, home-cultured antibiotics, iron peptonate, coco quinine, white oak bark, white pine tar, white pine bark, white chestnut, blood root, sweet balsam, meadowsweet, honeysuckle, Blessed Thistle, peppermint oil, rose oil, butterfly weed, butterfly nectar, royal jelly, spirulina, senna leaf, bittersweet, colostrum, iodine, castor oil, melted vinyl records of Brenda Lee's "Break it to Me Gently" and Roy Orbison's "Only The Lonely"), water extendable resin, rust, white oak, glass, typeset
44 x 27 x 5 inches
The Melancholic Refuses to Surrender, 2003
Cast and carved bone charcoal melted vinyl record of Leadbelly's "The Titanic", broken male hand bones, ground coal, horse hair, dirt, pigments, lead salvaged from the sea, string and rust
11 x 5 x 14 inches
*All images from ACME website
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