about the project

ARMBAR I.V. (IN A COMA): 72 OBJECTS is a multimedia poetry project by Tamryn Spruill.

She is creating a multimedia poem for each of the 72 objects which appeared in Marina Abramovic's noted performance piece, Rhythm O. Although deeply personal and unique to her life experiences, the poems in this collection also are a meditation on emptiness or the absence of inherent meaning in the objects humans engage with in everyday life.

All words x images x sounds that appear in ARMBAR I.V. (IN A COMA) were created by Tamryn Spruill and should not be used without her permission.

Playing with gunpowder set me free.
-Cai Guo-Quiang

The artist confronts chaos.
The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
-Romare Bearden

This endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity, human authority, contains, for all its horror, something very beautiful.
-Claudia Rankine

People shouldn't talk about art; they should art about art.
-Carmen Herrera