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Self Interest, 1999 
European version: 19 elements of the body isolated in Pyrex flasks, etched with the name of each, in proportion by weight based on a 100 pound
person: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium, iron, iodine, zinc, manganese, silicon, copper, cobalt, fluorine. Table designed by the artist: glass--39 inches square. Installation: Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, 2001 and shown at Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne, 2018

     

Self Interest, 1999 
American version: the 59 body elements (including trace) isolated in etched Pyrex flasks in proportion by weight based on a 100 pound person: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium, iron, iodine, zinc, manganese, silicon, copper, cobalt, fluorine, rubidium, strontium, bromine, lead, aluminum, cadmium, cerium, barium, tin, titanium, boron, nickel, selenium, chromium, arsenic, lithium, cesium, mercury, germanium, molybdenum, antimony, silver, niobium, zirconium, lanthanum, gallium, tellurium, yttrium, bismuth, thallium, indium, gold, scandium, tantalum, vanadium, thorium, uranium, samarium, beryllium, tungsten.

 

Close-up

 

Trace element: each hand blown flask ¾ inch height

 

Self Interest, 1999 
The 57 body elements isolated in etched Pyrex flasks in proportion by weight based on a 100 pound person in vitrine.
Herself In the Element, 2002, the silver gelatin print on the left, the body elements in proportion by weight in descending
order on a woman's back, Contingency Painting on the right. Installation view: Baruch College, City University of New York, 2003

 

Song Of Which, 2004
Edition of 36, published by Stalke Gallery; printed by Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen; photogravure, 21 ½ x 18 ¼ inches

The body elements are printed in descending order by weight on voile netting with O standing for oxygen. The image was originally photo-graphed in 2 ¼ inch film in 2004. The model is artist Evelina Domnitch. One of the edition: Collection of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.

 

International Year of Chemistry Banner for Elemental Matters, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 2011

 

International Year of Chemistry Banner, 2011

 

Song of Which [Evelina crouched], 2004
Edition of 36, published by Stalke Gallery,
Printed by Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen, 2008
Photogravure, 18 ¼ x 21 ½ inches

 

Song of Which [Evelina, head down], 2004
Edition of 24, self-published
Archival inkjet print, 19 x 12 inches

 

Evelina in Central Park, 2005                                                    
Edition of 24, self-published
Archival inkjet print, 13 x 13 inches

 

Partial Portrait [self-portrait], 2009
Plaster in wall
Life size


             

Changes and Disappearances, 2003/2018
Skull on marble base gathering moss
Spring

 

Changes and Disappearances, 2003/2022
Summer

 

Changes and Disappearances, 2003/2020
Fall

 

Changes and Disappearances, 2003/2020
Winter

 

La Madonna Addolorata, 2009/2018
Oil, silver leaf, liver of sulfur
11 ¼ x 8 ¼

 

 

Lucifer, 2017/18
Sulfur (cast from a plasticine bust of William Anastasi made from life)

The first exhibition introducing six of the Elements on the Periodic Chart that relate to Myths, Fairy Tales, Conundrum, Social Issues.
Elements: The Devil is On the Earth
Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, 2018-2019

 

Eden Myth, 2018
Appleseeds (arsenic), size of an apple

Exhibited in Elements: The Devil is On the Earth
Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, 2018

 

Nothing III, Series 2, 1969/2016
18 carat gold cast of a goose egg

Exhibited in Elements: The Devil is On the Earth
Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, 2018

 

 

Spent Bullet Earrings, 1979/2016
Silver; .38 caliber shot bullets

Exhibited in Elements: The Devil is On the Earth
Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, 2018


   

Conundrum, 2018
Lead, a goose feather plated

Exhibited in Elements: The Devil is On the Earth
Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, 2018

 

Mercury Mercury, 2018
Marble, coral, glass, mercury
13 3/4 x 8 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches
(the Caduceus is a mercury thermometer)

Elements: The Devil is On the Earth
Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, 2018

 
Elements: The Devil is On the Earth
Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, 2018
 

Atheist/A theist, 2022, Alcatraz ball and chain, oil paint, 42 lbs, representing Iron in the ongoing series
Elements on the Periodic Chart that represent Myths, Fairy Tales, Conundrum and Social Issues.