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The unimaginable idea of birth in the mind of the dead

Resin, wood 30.48 x 21.59 x 20.32 cm (12 x 8.5 x 8 in)

A cast skull rests on a cement base within a wooden tray.
The tray is engraved with a skeletal figure.

The skull is translucent.
Its interior is visible.

Within the cranial cavity lies a small, nearly formed fetus.
Blue. Suspended. Intact.

Not a thought.
Not a metaphor of possibility.
A body.

The container implies conclusion.
The interior holds continuation.

The fetus is developed enough to be undeniable,
too formed to be dismissed as imagination,
too contained to enter the world.

The materials fix both conditions in place.
Death remains structural.
Birth remains enclosed.

No sequence clarifies which comes first.
The skull becomes both vault and womb.
The object holds what should not coexist,
origin secured inside its own aftermath.