Southern Bacteria
2004
Excavated Civil War era military buttons, bullets and buckles, iron foot that a wounded Civil War soldier constructed for himself, newspaper fragment(August 15, 1945), bacteria cultured from dirt of southern battlefields, beeswax, spring water, tinted with homemade tincture (aged holy water, Devil’s shoestring root, Adam and Eve root, southernwood, Virginia snakeroot, ground venomous snake bone, cotton root, arrow root, rupturewort, southern adder’s tongue, winter’s bark, Dead Sea salt), pupleheart, pigments, rust
30 ½” x 22” x 22”