Spectral Motion, Glendale, California John Gaughan Born 1940, United States After Joseph P. Freud (Joseffy) 1873 Austria-1946 United States Replica of Balsamo, the Living Skull, 2024 Resin, wood, and glass Collection of John Gaughan, Los Angeles Balsamo made audiences think magician and illusion creator Joseffy could “reanimate” the dead. The original “skull” created in 1902 was an automaton, or self-propelled machine, with a complex motorized internal system preset to perform a carefully orchestrated “conversation” between the magician and a suddenly animate skull. The mechanism sat on a suspended sheet of glass and would move side to side and snap its jaw in response to questions: three times for Y-E-S and two times for N-O. Salama me Ling Stul with Jeseon P Freud boseny standing behind, in David P. Abbort! the Naneous Crusons ofecsen: 190S. Stantord Unversh: dotsad ty Gonere