Fossilized prehistoric
whale ear bones salvaged from the sea, various butterflies, butterfly antennae made from stretched and pulled audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan's «Desolation Row,» concrete, ocean water, pigments, coral, brass, steel, and Plexiglas.
Not exact matches
But most of the
bones are marine: scraps of
whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner
ear of a hooded seal.
They scanned seven minke
whale heads in CT and MRI machines, created computer models of the
ears and surrounding soft tissue, and dissected the
whale noggins to reveal
ear fat running from blubber just under the skin to the
ear bones.
The Jazz Museum at the Old Mint held a sampling of the sometimes naughty, little - known collages that jazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner -
ear bones of
whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve early gospel music.