Brian Oakes

Display Case 4 (A Breath), 2024
5" x 7.75" x 10.5"

A wall mounted display case containing: three homemade rubies, two copper sulfate crystal seeds, one “Devil’s Heads” seed pod (also known as the fruit of Trapa natans, a plant that has the common name “water chestnut”), a CD4017 CMOS Decade Counter with 10 Decoded Outputs in the DIP16 format that was improperly connected and exploded, 3 piezoelectric crystal seeds (also known as Rochelle Salt or potassium sodium tartrate, characterized by their pyroelectricity property in which these growths can generate a temporary voltage when heated, cooled, or experience mechanical pressure), a chunk of shungite, and 5 freshwater pearls.

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