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Rupture of an egg yoke, rupture of a juice box, volcanic rupture, uterine rupture, rupture of a runner’s blister, rupture of a cyst on your ovaries, rupture of the Great Wall of China, spontaneous rupture of the esophagus of Lord High Admiral Wassenaer of the Dutch Navy, earthquake rupture, rupture of an overripe watermelon, rupture of a pustule, rupture of breast implants, orgasm rupture, rupture of your spleen, rupture of pudding skin, rupture of a bicycle tire, globe rupture, maiden’s head rupture, rupture of anger, of laughter, of terror, of tears, science project rupture of baking soda and vinegar;

The cycle of life begins with the amniotic membrane rupture.

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Placed inside a rupture incubator is a colony of unfired clay bowls holding small water balloons. Generations of bowls and balloons wait their unknown moment of rupturing. The piece calls for daily handling of the bowls that have ruptured and those that have not. The daily handling mimics the constant care and turning of chicken eggs in the process of incubation. The chicken egg takes 21 days. The fertile eggs can be stored for about 7 days before being incubated. The colony of bowls will take 8 days to fully rupture. The bottom row is heated and is likely to be the first to rupture. The last shelf to be incubated by heat will have waited 7 days. The morning after the rupture the bowls on the bottom are moved to the top row. The bowls on the top shelf are moved down to in the one below and so on.

Within minutes of the rupture of a balloon, the bone-dry clay begins to soak in the water and rupture itself. The clay emits tiny bubbles which sound like faint chirping sounds. Invisible birds are hatch with each rupture. Three pre-recorded loops play simultaneously creating a polyphonic micro sound environment within the incubator.