Dario Robleto (American, b. 1972). The Lost Shipment of an Untested Life Potion, 2003. Mixed media. 11 inches (27.9 cm) ... (Total: 2 )

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Dario Robleto (American, b. 1972)
The Lost Shipment of an Untested Life Potion, 2003
Mixed media
11 inches (27.9 cm) high on a 2-1/2 inches (6.4 cm) high wood base
9-1/2 inches (24.1 cm) high (single bottle)
11 x 19-1/2 x 13-5/8 inches (27.9 x 49.5 x 34.6 cm) (overall single case with bottles)

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Austin.


The artist's mixed media includes:
Cast and carved bone dust from every bone in the body, sulfur, homemade moonshine (potato derived alcohol), wine elixir (water, sugar, fermented black cherries, yeast gelatin, tartaric acid, pectinase, sulfur dioxide, oak flavoring, fortified with : aged holy water, angelica root, rosary vine, temple bells, Bishopwort, myrrh resin, prayer plant fig leaf, immortal root, carbon, chlorophyll, spirulina, brimstone, Devil's backbone, Devil's shoestring root, ground venomous snake bone, Virginia snakeroot, Devil's club leaf, be venom, dead sea salt hemlock, blood root, tare, melted vinyl record droplets from Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is" and Roy Orbison's "In Dreams"), homemade paper, pine, moss, rust, ribbon, water extendable resin, typeset


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