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on February 07, 2020

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On Longing

"Objects of Desire" Sentence Response The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale. The video above depicts the colossal skeleton of a thirteen meter Bryde's whale on display at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island. Long has the whale been a creature that has captivated and mesmerized. Elusive in nature despite their immense size, the gentle giants have embodied the vast and mysterious essence of the cosmos. I gazed intently at the repeated curvature of ribs that had once encased the gears and levers that brought life to the ancient, milk-stained bones in front of me. It struck me, at one time crimson veins snaked through now absent tissue and cartilage, pumping the gooey essence of life and spirit through this beast. I have never come in contact with a whale. Perhaps this is why it seems almost incomprehensible that something so large could actually exist. Yet, here I was, gazing down in wonder at the foundation of this Bryde's Wha...

Ceramic Sculpture

Clay Covered Hands Heavy, sulfur-tainted air pierces the senses, imbedding itself in tangled hair and skin as it drifts haphazardly through mossy grasses, bursting, like fingers desperate to be grasped, through the ashen mud beneath it. This is the notorious Florida marshland. The putrid aroma and jet black peat that compose these bog-like territories are usually enough to set anyone off of wandering too deeply within its mysterious trenches. Yet, buried deep within the Earth’s belly lie the tales of ancient people who once roamed this seemingly inhospitable land. Through their unearthing, archaeologists have tapped the untainted sap that pulses through the veins of time itself. The clay body reflects a multi-sensory narrative of the human experience within the natural world, embodying the pivotal beliefs, rituals, and ideology behind death and life thereafter of Florida's first people, in order to reexamine present-day interaction with the natural realm in the face of ind...

Diane Ackerman's Touch Response

En Esta Piel Viva Mi Cuerpo Anhela ...in this living skin my body yearns... “Death would happen cell by cell, receptor by receptor; each of life’s minute sensations would be torched. Today people who have somehow survived accidental burning come to the burn units of Metropolitan hospitals to be redressed. If their burns are too deep for the body to repair by itself, they receive temporary coverings (cadaver skin, pigskin, lubricated gauze) until doctors can begin grafting skin from other body parts. Our skin makes up about 16% of our body weight (about 6 pounds), and stretches two square yards, but if too much of the body is burned there isn't enough skin graft. . . . covered the boys with cadaver skin and artificial membrane, removed small squares of skin from their armpits and cultured them into large sheets of skin, which they grafted on gradually over a five month period.”- Excerpt from Diane Ackerman's Natural History of Senses [section]: The Fe...

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