Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – detail – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – detail, illustration showing location and number of whales caught in various years – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – detail showing expelled cat hairball encased in glass bubble with location tags – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – detail showing expelled cat hairballs encased in glass bubbles with location tags – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – detail, location tag – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – detail showing expelled cat hairballs encased in glass bubbles with location tags – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Sean Salstrom – Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports – detail, illustration showing location and number of whales caught in various years – variable dimensions – Exhibited at John Hay Library.
Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports
Sean Salstrom
2020
Blown glass, expelled hairballs from artist's cats, graphics, tags, string in display case
variable dimensions

Feline Bezoar Discovery Reports is inspired by the whalers’ search for cetaceans and, by proxy, ambergris (whale vomit). In this work Salstrom brought the act of ambergris discovery closer to home. For the past year he searched out and collected hairballs expelled by his two cats (Alcatraz and Natto). He mapped his home noting each hairball discovery site, and then made unique containers to display each hairball.

This artwork was exhibited at the