Artifact 12: Tongue Map
Tissue paper, chicken wire, paper-clay, latex, acrylic paint, resin, fineliner (Approx. 12 x 18 inches)
Anatomical rabbit-human hybrid taxidermy. Labelled in shadow-like scribbles.
“Conclusion: Speech rots. It doesn’t vanish. The evidence here arrives already inconstant. It is fragmented, tampered, yet indomitably present. This is how trauma testifies, not through clarity, but through a failure of coherence. We have become the method of reading, performing the gaps, the ruptures, the oozing remains of speech.” - Bleeding Between the Lines, Isabelle Gardner.