

Mobile Ranger Library—Komodo National Park, 2005
Watercolor and colored pencil on paper
13 x 21 1/4 inches (framed)
Collection of Alexandra Rome
Mobile Ranger Library—Komodo National Park, 2005
Colored pencil on paper
13 1/2 x 15 inches (framed)
Collection of Jacquelyn McCroskey and Marc Pally
Mobile Ranger Library—Komodo National Park, 2005
Colored pencil on paper
12 3/4 x 14 inches (framed)
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Mobile Ranger Library—Komodo National Park, 2005
Colored pencil on paper
12 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches (framed)
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Mobile Ranger Library—Komodo National Park, 2008
Mixed media
96 x 84 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches
Fabricated by William Feeney
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Galápagos chorus, 2008
DVD projection, amplified cone gloves with prerecorded
animal sounds, iPods, artist’s books with texts by 8th
grade students from El Colegio Nacional Galápagos
Courtesy of the artist
Juggernaut, 2008
Super 16mm film digitized to HD video projection
5:44 video loop
Courtesy of the artist and Max Protetch, New York
Guerrero Negro, 2008
Super 16mm film digitized to HD video projection
Video loop
Courtesy of the artist and Max Protetch, New York
Shangri-La: el sueño volatil (Shangri-La: The Volatile Dream), 2008
Mixed media
Decorative wooden detailing created by Tibetan artisans
in the region of Shangri-La, Zhongdian, Yunnan
Province, China
144 x 248 x 63 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Sapukay—Cry for Help, 2008
Woven taquara, banana trunk fibers, feathers, wire,
fishing line, caxeta
Assembled in Cananéia, Brazil, with members of the local
Quilombola, Guarani, and Caiçara communities
60 x 137 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Teko Mbarate—Struggle for Life, 2008
Taquara, bamboo, wire, styrofoam, plywood, banana trunk
fibers, feathers, sisal, mud, water, car battery, lights, mp3
players, and headphones
Assembled in Cananéia, Brazil, with members of the local
Quilombola, Guarani, and Caiçara communities
40 x 350 x 24 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
The Boundary Of Life Is Quietly Crossed, 2008
Ink dyed poplar, typeset on cardstock, hair lockets
made of stretched and curled audio tape recordings
of supercentenarians (humans living to 110 or older),
nineteenth-century hair flowers, lace and fabric from
widows’ mourning dresses, colored paper, silk, antique
ribbon, homemade paper, willow, ash, white oak, milk
paint, glass
71 1/2 x 104 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
The Ark Of Frailty, 2008
Poplar, typeset on cardstock, hair lockets made of
stretched and curled audio tape recordings of “Lazarus
species” (species that are rediscovered alive after being
classified extinct) in the wild, nineteenth-century hair
flowers, nineteenth-century dried flowers, lace and fabric
from widows’ mourning dresses, colored paper, silk,
antique ribbon and buttons, carved animal bone buttons,
homemade paper, willow, ash, white oak, milk paint, glass
71 1/2 x 105 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
The Common Denominator Of Existence Is Loss, 2008
50,000-year-old extinct cave bear paws, human hand
bones, stretched and pulled audio tape of the earliest
audio recording of time (experimental clock, 1878),
nineteenth-century mourning ribbon, bocote,
shellac, glass
42 3/4 x 47 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
Time Measures Nothing But This Love, 2008
Hand-blown hourglasses, stretched and pulled audio tape
recordings of the voices of the world’s longest-married
couple (80 years), stretched and pulled audio tape of
the earliest audio recording of time (experimental clock,
1878), ground resurrection plant, ground rosebuds and
rosehips, silk, satin, leather, brass, iron, fir, typeset
35 1/2 x 130 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches (open)
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
A Homeopathic Treatment For Human Longing, 2008
Glass vials, vintage glass electrode wands, nineteenth-century
bloodletting cupping glass, various homemade
homeopathic remedies (sound of glaciers melting, voice
of oldest to ever live, last heartbeats of loved one, million-year-old blossom, million-year-old raindrop, deceased
lovers’ heartbeats, extinct animal sounds, extinct
languages), various custom-ordered remedies made
by professional homeopath (black amber, willow, tears,
mammoth hair, glacial runoff, voice of oldest widow, black
swan bone dust, Sylvia Plath’s voice), velvet, silk, leather,
ribbon, brass, iron, cork, pine, typeset
66 x 129 x 53 1/4 inches (open)
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
Love Has Value Because It’s Not Eternal, 2008
Hand-blown glass beakers, stretched audio tape of field
recordings of the sound of glaciers melting (2005–06)
intertwined with audio tape of various lovers recording
their partner’s heartbeats as they reflected on each other,
ground passion flower, amber, eternal flower, resurrection
plant, silk, satin, leather, ribbon, brass, iron, cork, pine,
typeset
36 x 127 1/2 x 53 1/2 inches (open)
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
Some Longings Survive Death, 2008
Glacially released 50,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusks,
nineteenth-century braided-hair flowers of various lovers
intertwined with glacially released woolly mammoth hair,
carved ivory and bone, bocote, colored paper, silk,
ribbon, typeset
57 x 53 x 8 inches
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
Words Tremble With The Thoughts They Express, 2008
Feathers made from stretched audio tape of the last
recordings of now extinct birds and of now extinct
languages, glass inkwell, homemade ink (lamp black,
ground fulgurites [glass produced by lightning strikes
when heat from blast melts surrounding sand], cuttlefish
sepia), homemade paper, volcanic ash from Mt. St.
Helens, ink-dyed willow, brass, typeset
63 3/4 x 25 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and D’amelio Terras, New York; Inman
Gallery, Houston; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; ACME,
Los Angeles
RARE, 2008
16 LCD Monitors, 1 DVD player, 1 DVD, and
existing architecture
204 x 264 inches
Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York
木, 林, 森 Project (Mu, Lin, Sen Project), 2005–ongoing
Components of the project include a 45 1/4 x 135 inch
landscape by the artist, twenty 19 1/2 x 16 inch drawings
by Kenyan school children, copies of the primer in
Swahili and English and other materials used on-site,
photographs, and an online auction site (forestproject.net)
Courtesy of the artist