Goran Tomcic's "A Shimmering Heart, Gold".

Against My Heart

I will take bricks

and place them on my heart

and press them really hard,

but the heart will not break.

I will put my heart in the washer

and wash it in hot water with bleach,

but the heart will not lose its color or dissolve.

I will abandon my heart on a railroad track

and let a freight train pass over it,

but the heart will endure.

I will climb with it to a high mountain peak

and throw it into a deep ravine,

but its knocking will echo.

I will tie my heart to driftwood

and swim away in the opposite direction,

but the heart will follow me anyway.

I will get explosives

and wrap them around my heart

and explode them into uncountable pieces,

but the heart, my stubborn heart, will amplify.

I will betray my heart by cutting

the veins that carry memories.

Goran Tomcic, A Shimmering Heart, Gold, 2009.

Installation: various designs of gold holographic films, one million heart-shaped sequins.

Dimensions: 400cm x 460 cm x400cm.