A Spider-Silk Organ.za Glove for the Heart
Surgically Fitted, for the Incapable of Love
“My heart, it broke. Shot through the middle and left to spill. I will wrap it in spider silk. Nothing better.”
For it was diagnosed and prescribed - One Bullet Proof Heart.
~
Window Installation in Aurum , Bankastræti 4, Reykjavík.
Heart Glove is exhibited as two suspended frames and one floating colossal heart.
- Frame one holds small fragile cardboard heart and pattern for cutting a glove to fit around the heart pinned to a lost letter.
- In frame two is suspended a heart enveloped in a spider silk valve-glove for the inside of a chest.
- In window two levitates a giant heart modelled on texts of the old-Gods, 1.5 metres in length with a titanic 180 cm girth.
~ Shot too close by Marino Thorlacius
in Iceland.
With thanks to Oddi
for providing cardboard and machine time.
