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  This limited-edition release, housed in a metal box, comprises an individually duplicated audio cassette carrying two pieces by Joseph Clayton Mills, Nightingale and Soliloquy; the poem [ode to the sleeper] by Carrie Olivia Adams; a small portrait of the poet John Keats on his deathbed; and a magnet, an eraser, and brief instructions for their use.
  
  Assembled during 2020-2022 at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, these pieces explore the aesthetic and therapeutic potential of repetition and semantic satiation as a means of processing chronic stress, anxiety, psychological trauma, and experiences that are otherwise difficult to grasp intellectually and emotionally.
  
  In Nightingale, a recording of F. Scott Fitzgerald reading the first line of the poem Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats is looped and layered. The words “my heart aches” are repeated, mimicking the incessant rhythm of a heartbeat, until an auditory hallucination eventually transforms the phrase into the request to “take my heart.”
  
  In Soliloquy, two statements and a question gradually emerge from and disappear into white noise, a humming voice, and breath.
  
  Special thanks to Giuseppe Ielasi for mastering assistance on an earlier iteration of Nightingale.
  
  This is Suppedaneum no. 25.
  
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