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 Three Ceremonial Vessels With Incantations These were exhibited at Damned II. Felted vessels which each incorporate a lyric element. Made from wool, silk, dyed gauze, copper wire. If you have questions or comments, please email me: jssaults@gmail.com  Incantation I The setting sun is an eye that vomits blood. The full moon is flung into the sky like the pale placenta from an unwanted birth. The insane repetitions of night insects hope desperately at every moment for a different outcome, but my love for you is the monster in this movie, and when I get the rusted-looking strips of rag wound tightly enough around my forearms, I will begin to gnaw on my fingers. My creation will be a thing neither living nor dead, a zombie, a virus, and I only hope that in the morning my blood will still be fresh enough to make the sand sparkle at your feet.  Incantation II O, Grandmothers: love makes every breath a perfect, miniature, doll house-sized crucifixion. O, great Vacancy, O, Scream Without a Mouth: I will steal from you the courage of trees that eat their own still-living leaves, not knowing whether this agony should be called birth or death. Swallow my eyes, O ravens, so that I can fly above and see myself hanging upside down, listening to the music of my heart-blood's drip, drip, drip, on the blind, infertile ground. Incantation III Although they burn my tongue like melted aluminum I will keep those bright syllables stitched inside my mouth. I will twist bruised plugs of leaves and stop my nostrils, so that I will not exhale the air of that last day. Then, I will lie down, where cattle stand dreamlessly, under the heated sleep of trees and I will not speak your name until the dead ride their horses over my flat, dusted heart.  Ceremonial Vessel I #CV001
12"lx10"hx10"w $250 $650 for set of all three (#CV00ALL) Ceremonial Vessel II #CV002
14"lx11.5"hx10"w $250 $650 for set of all three (#CV00ALL) Ceremonial Vessel III #CV003
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