Preservation
2018
60"x15"x7"
Steel, Hair, Wood
In Victorian times, families would
keep locks of hair from the deceased as a token to remember them. When
preserved, hair will last centuries while the body begins to quickly
deteriorate. The dead remain in our hearts and minds, but time takes its toll
without notice. We cannot control the turning of time, so we pump the bodies of
our loved ones full of Formaldehyde and other embalming fluids to try and
prolong the inevitable. We try to salvage and control as much as possible to
shield us from the reality of our own mortality. But time waits for no one, and
eventually what comes from the earth must return to it.
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