A HOLSTEIN COWHIDE WEEKENDER BAG CONTAINING HOSPITAL GOWNS, BONE MARROW BIOPSY KITS, A MICROSCOPE, BLANK GLASS SLIDES, RED AND BLUE STAIN, TWEEZERS, A PIPETTE, COTTON SWABS, A TEST TUBE, OPTICAL PAPER, AND A SET OF 50 RESEARCH-GRADE HUMAN PATHOLOGY SLIDES IS STOLEN FROM THE GALLERY.

If I wanted to tell you
I would not speak a word

I would point to statistics

I would focus on abstraction

I would draw for you between the vertices and edges

I would dry hump the corporate model

for statistics do not have a surface
do not have a texture
do not have a crevice
do not have the feel of dried perspiration upon the skin

they the determining factors
you cannot touch
they offer parting gifts:

produce for the farm
then feed yourself to the factory

or

allow the factory to metastasize inside of you
and know that no one cares about a storm without a name

like the parts of you you do not think you can feel
the insides
the intestines
the inside the inside
the marrow
failing you in ways you have yet to fathom

instead of soaking up the secondhand stardust
your pension will be
an extended holiday in the hospital
with house calls not included

blood counts are complicated curves
on an x and y axis

an abstract
a hypothesis

for x = something must be sensed in order to know something is missing

[BAG, GOWNS, SLIDES, MICROSCOPE, STAIN, TWEEZERS, COTTON SWABS, PIPETTE, TEST TUBE, OPTICAL PAPER - sculpture]

2014