8/16/14

When Turtles Flew

2007

Deer Skull, American Snapping-Turtle Bones, Nails, Galvanized/Copper Wire, Springs, Sawblades, Low RPM Motor


     There is an Arabian proverb that says "Grinding one's teeth does not fill one's belly..." The sound this piece produced was that of grinding teeth, and smacked of the same futility as the failed aspiration behind the assemblage. Breathing life into things long dead does not make them live again, at least not as they did.




























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