This is one of my stAnding pieces right now... they tAke some effort to mAintAin long term, so I do not hA/v\e mAny li/v\e At A time... Thovgh sometimes I repvrpose pArts into other works. [The /v\ideo stArts blvrry, And there is slight clAmoring As the cAmerA lines And Adjvsts to the scene. The qvAlity is reminiscent of An older phone. It scAns o/v\er An oli/v\eblood, splAyed ovt on A slAb cAr/v\ed like A chAise. The heAd is tilted gently to the side, And the Arms Are lAid down next to the form. The legs Are folded. The postvre AppeArs relAxed, the svbjects eyes Are closed.] [The chest is opened, the skin cleAnly split And pvlled off to either side of the body, where it is pinned down to points on the strvctvre beneAth it neAtly with strAnds of sil/v\er threAd. The cAmerA pAns o/v\er the chest. MAteriAl hAs been remo/v\ed And whAt remAins is pvlled to the side, neAtly folded with the skin, exposing the lvngs And heArt. Yov cAn heAr breAthing, presvmAbly Dremot^s, in the bAckgrovnd.] [The heArt itself is not oli/v\e, howe/v\er -- it is blAck bvt shifts in hve, Alike oil, beneAth the light As the heArt beAts. Two nodes Are AttAched to the heArt And wires feed bAck beneAth it bAck into the body. The cAmerA zooms in And Adjvsts, And the breAthing stops A moment, And the sovnd Adjvsts to heAr the thrvms of the heArt, And the slow, deep breAths of the orgAnic lvngs encircling it.] [\A/fter holding the /v\iew A moment the cAmerA zooms bAck ovt to show the entire scene, re/v\eAling some brvising And AbrAsions Across the rest of the body. The /v\ideo Abrvptly stops.]

