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Five Books of Moses sealed in acrylic paint. 1995 Bible battery Bible, sal ammonium, zinc, carbon rods, copper wire, LED, button. A bible is used to generate a current that powers a small LED screen. When a small button is pushed, text scrolls along the screen that reads, "Move past old narratives". 2001 Small pieces of paper pulp are dried, digitally altered and printed as a set of 10 Bible Rorschach cards. Project comes from research into the life of Hermann Rorschach and his interest in religion and projection, and the popular 19th century game of Blotto, where people would buy or make their own inkblots and then use them to make up poems and stories. 1995-1998 Five Books of Moses are individually soaked, chewed and bitten. 1994 The Hebrew and Christian bibles are soaked, pulped and pressed together. 1993 Bible soaked, twisted into into long strands and braided together. 1994 The Torah and The Qur'an, each branded with the word life: The Torah in Arabic and The Qur'an in Hebrew. 2003 Five Books of Moses blended into pulp & pressure canned. 1993 Bible blended into pulp & canned under pressure. 1993 Bible, stones, resin. 2001 Five Books of Moses, pulped and stuffed into a corner. 1994 Hebrew Bible. 1994 Deuteronomy dipped in egg, coated in matzo meal and deep fried in kosher oil. 2001 Hebrew Bible, drill press. 1992 Segments extracted from the Hebrew Bible. 1993 Hebrew Bible, honey, glass box. 2001 Five stories of victory from the Hebrew Bible. 1994 Glass Testaments (The bible makes perfect forms) Bibles are used to shape molten glass into the most perfect forms. In collaboration with glass artist, John Leighton. 1998 Bible, soaked and gripped. 1994 Bible wrapped with elastic bands from San Francisco Chronicle, every day of the Gulf War. 1991 Hebrew Bible covered with the artist's hair. 1992 Bible soaked in water and sealed by its own glue. 1995 Bible, gold leaf. 1993 Five Books of Moses, pulped, pressed and balanced. 1993 Leviticus. 1993 Koshered Hebrew Bible koshered according to Jewish law. 1993 Hebrew Bible bearing the imprint of body parts. 1995 Bible, nails. 1992 Genesis, cotton sacks. 1993 Interactive game where players enter their religion and gender, and then enter written descriptions of images they see on the screen. All entries are stored in a database. Once players complete the series, they can view all players' interpretations by gender and/or religion. Images in PlayBlotto! are generated from small pieces of pulp from the Old Testament, scanned and resized. PlayBlotto! is an early interactive game influenced by the psychoanalytic research of Hermann Rorshach and his use of inkblots to reveal personality characteristics. Rorschach wrote about his "form interpretation experiment" in Psychodiagnostics, a book he published in 1921. The system is now known as the Rorschach Inkblot Test. Software: Director, Lingo. CD-ROM version. 2002 Bible, pressboard, nuts, bolts. 1991 Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Isaiah shaped by hand into the most perfect forms. 1994 Remembering Kristallnacht (and bombs worn by people crossing public streets, buses blowing up or being driven into crowds of bystanders, while children are shot, houses destroyed and people, fearing the other, look for the face of the enemy and wait for the next outbreak of violence) now, after 50 years Bible embedded in broken glass. 2001 Genesis torn and hung on a line.1993 Story of Ruth torn and sewn. 1992 Rending, or the Keriah, is a tearing of clothes, which is done to indicate a state of mourning. Following the mourning period, the torn cloth can be sewn but the seam of the tear must always remain visible. Five Books of Moses rended, then cast in resin, 1992 Five Books of Moses soaked in water for one week, then drained and rolled, 1995 Made in response to a massacre in the Hebron. In the West Bank city, Tomb of the Patriarchs, on Purim in 1994, Baruch Goldstein stormed a mosque and fired on praying Muslims. Twenty-nine people died. The Tomb of the Patriarchs is a holy site for both Muslims and Jews. The book was soaked for 29 days, drained, randomly opened and rubbed, until 'peace' appeared. 1994 Bible, liquid latex. 1992 Five Books of Moses, liquid latex. 1993 Bible soaked for one week, randomly opened, and scratched and probed by hand. 1994 Bible, muslin, thread. 1994 Splattered (the law takes the form of the place where it lands) Bible pages are made into pulp, shaped into small balls, and thrown against a wall. Each ball sticks to the surface of the wall on contact. 1995 Psalms, liquid latex. 1993 Tarred & feathered (no image sadly) Bible, tar, feathers. 1994 The spine of the bible walking uphill Hebrew Bible. 1994 The spine of the bible freed from the weight of its pages Hebrew Bible. 2001 Bible cast in clear resin. 1995 Bible, vise. 1992 Bible, wire. 1992 Bible soaked in water for 7 days, and on the 8th day, wrung dry. 1994 |