Elise Goldstein
… because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying, “We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.” … because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying, “We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.” … because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying, “We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.” … because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying, “We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.” … because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying, “We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.” … because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying, “We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.” … because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying, “We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.”
… because I could not touch what did not belong to me. But the vigil tick spoke, saying,
“We must all swallow ourselves whole. Whatever remains will go on without our permission.”
2010
Archive of 119 tissues; Installation 10’ x 10’ x 10’

The Act:
a. Visited 19 funerals of strangers
b. Watched mourners silently
c. Recorded body language
d. Collected used tissues from trash
e. Fed each tissue to a deathwatch beetle
f. Commissioned biochemical lab to expose tears

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