Beginning by Jessica R. Elsaesser and Alaska L. McFadden

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One styrofoam carton containing 12 blown-out white eggshells : each is labeled with a phrase : No further; Uncontrollable trajectory; The odds; Bold; Hesitant; Gestures; Innumerable; The small hand; Peals; Aging; Awkward; Yes.

“Materials: Eggshell, firework, twine and butcher’s string, lover’s knot, miscellaneous seeds, brass bells, cedar sawdust, glass beads, vat Bordeaux pigment, gravel, nylon stocking, glue, nothing, messenger seeds, clock hand, Hooker green watercolor paint, copper tape, snakeskin, paper (parchment, vellum, graph, graphite tracing), eggshell white paint, styrofoam carton. Letterpress printed in 12 point Spartan Medium at the The Arm, Brooklyn, NY.” … Colophon.

Limited edition of 13 ; numbered. SMFA copy numbered two of thirteen.

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