By now I had reached a point where I was uncomfortable using the dead bodies of animals that had been killed against their will. If I was going to continue freeze-drying, I had to find a new source.

At first I thought about using road-kills that had been killed accidentally, but I wanted official purchase receipts to prove to everyone that I was a law-abiding citizen who was legally buying my art supplies from government-approved companies.

And then I noticed that one of these companies sold preserved human bodies.

So out of curiosity, I phoned this company and asked, "Where do you get the human bodies from?"

A salesperson replied that the bodies started out as unclaimed dead corpses lying in the streets of foreign countries. The foreign countries collected and sold these unwanted bodies to his educational supply company which processed the foreign cadavers into catalogue items which his company sold to anyone.

Upon hearing that his company sold embalmed human body parts which came from humans that had lived free-range lives and died from natural causes in their familiar environment, I bought a human uterus.

After taking it out of its package, I dissected it, freeze-dried it, covered parts of it with masking tape, abstractly spray-painted it and mounted it on top of my puchase receipt and the catalogue page that listed it as:

Human Uterus. In Formalin. Complete with ovaries. US$120.