In milk and coagulated blood under the weight of decay I blend the formal qualities of cave walls, petrified human skin, unearthed artifacts, and dilapidated structures to evoke the fragility of historical preservation. The fragile forms (temporal parts) in milk and coagulated blood under the weight of decay function as a neural network that expresses the anomaly of survival and the persistent decay of all things. The cave paintings and prehistoric objects that survive in the present are the exception, not the rule. Unstable materials like saliva, urine, human blood, and milk, were often used as key components in prehistoric pigments. An indeterminant series of random factors aligned to preserve these things for tens of thousands of years, their existence is the very essence of chance. Every time we encounter objects from prehistory we contribute to their inevitable disintegration, a fact I communicate through the delicate forms in milk and coagulated blood under the weight of decay.
