By Melissa Raynoha
Boron (B)
Column 3A, Row 2 - Semi-metal
Title: Hippies and a Ouija Board (Everyone Needs to Cling to Something)
Artist: Dario Robleto
Date: 2003
Medium: cast and carved dehydrated bone calcium and bone dust from every bone in the body, home-brewed moonshine and wine health tonics (potato-derived alcohol; water, sugar, fermented black cherries, yeast, gelatin, tartaric acid, pectinase, sulfur dioxide, and oak flavoring) fortified with one-hundred-year-hemlock oil, Devil's Claw, witch hazel bark, swamp root, powdered rhubarb, pleurisy root, belladonna root, white pine tar, coal tar, dandelion, sarsaparilla, mandrake, mullein, scullcap, cramp bark, elder, ginseng, horny goat weed, tansy, sugar of lead, mercury with chalk and tin-oxide; calcium, potassium, creatine, zinc, iron, nickel, copper, boron, vitamin K, crushed amino acids, home-cultured antibiotics, chromium, magnesium, colostrum, ironized yeast, ground pituitary gland, ground wisdom teeth, ground sea horse, shark cartilage, coral calcium, iodine, and castor oil; various 1960s 45 rpm records cast in prehistoric whale-bone dust, microcrystalline cellulose, rust, cold-cast iron and brass, antique syringe, crushed velvet, leather, water-extendable resin, and transfer type
Boron was one of many elements used to fortify the health tonics included in this artwork.
Source: ArtStor
