He owns Beuys's wall-sized felt cushion speared with a red javelin: a vast wound evoked by colour, contrasting softness with cold steel and sheer abruptness of scale.
"Memory is a vast wound," he warns his interlocutors, "truly a pandemonium," and his recall of the past is complicated by the fact that "some memories are still coming by ship, while others have already arrived by airmail".
I am right at the top of a mountain pass overlooking Geiranger, a vast axe-wound of a fjord, the Unesco-listed cover girl of Norwegian tourist brochures and recently voted the world's most beautiful holiday destination by National Geographic.
Cross the Sognefjorden, Norway's longest and deepest fjord, then continue past glaciers and through tunnels that go on for miles, until you arrive above the Unesco-listed Geirangerfjord, a vast axe-wound of a fjord.
The current, mostly underground system, inaugurated on July 19 , 1900 in time for the World Exposition, was built by 3,500 workers who froze the ground to drill beneath the Seine, sank sections of prefabricated tunnel into the riverbed and ripped up paving stones, turning boulevards into vast open wounds.
Galileo had previously revealed flows within vast volcanic wounds called calderas.
But these were people who, the vast majority, were wounded with immediately deadly injuries.
That soldiers are sometimes exposed to multiple blasts during a deployment, or can suffer from a vast combination of wounds, including shrapnel, burns, blows to the head, blast waves, lost limbs or internal injuries, can exacerbate brain trauma in ways unseen among civilians.
The harm reduction work of Rylkov activists is little more than a tiny bandage on a vast and rapidly bleeding wound.
It describes the growing health burden caused by these lesions with vast sums spent on wound management and its associated complexities around the world.
Wounded, wounded, wounded!
