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A medium for administering medication in a tablet form.

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  • If a patient is convinced beyond all doubt a gelcap filled with sugar will cure them, then it very well may.
  • Of course, most of the time this patient has to be convinced that this gelcap contains a powerful / miracle drug.
  • Inside each gelcap is a grain of rice, engraved with a single word I know there are plenty of people in SF with the requisite skills ….
  • My dazzling brilliance was to turn her piece into a series, a la Kiki Smith, to turn the gelcap clear, to include the grain of rice, and to see it as epic.
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