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Lead-safety Message: Leaded aviation paint falls from old planes onto this California desert, including from Australian Boeing 747s. Why aren’t planes made to be recycled?
Artists: Elizabeth O’Brien
Description of Work: Google Earth Image from Google Earth
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Lead-safety Message: Bronwen Wickkiser says that in Ovid’s version of the myth, Cupid’s shiny, sharp, golden arrow arouses desire, but his dull lead arrow blunts desire and slows the limbs – lead being used by the Greeks and Romans to prevent pregnancy, in magical bindings, and the metal of choice for curse tablets and sling bullets.Lead, primarily in the form of lead carbonate, featured as an ingredient in some Greek and Roman therapies to prevent pregnancy. Lead, primarily in the form of lead carbonate, featured asan ingredient in some Greek and Roman therapies to prevent pregnancy.
Artists: Elizabeth O’Brien
Description of Work: Cut paper and alfoil snack wraps on cardboard under clear plastic.
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Lead-safety Message: This Excluder enables the worker bees to enter the Hive but forces the Queen Bee to remain @ Home & Not Allow the colony to Swarm Away WITH HER HIGHNESS! But who wants LEAD FLAVOURED HONEY????
Artists: Dr Michael Hindmarsh
Description of Work: The Queen Bee Excluder goes on the front of the bee hive where the guard bees loiter and the worker bees come and go through the bars. Like cattle or children, bees may develop a taste for lead and lick the bars!
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Lead-safety Message: Great White Sharks Have Toxic Levels Of Mercury, Arsenic And Lead In Their Blood – it’s likely if we eat the same fish that sharks eat, we’ll be poisoned too!
Artists: Elizabeth O’Brien
Description of Work: Title from a poem in Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” book of poems. Lead pencil and pen drawing.
