PROJECT FOR CANAL

Part of PROJECT FOR CANAL,1:2294

is the most recent in a series of works documenting the tidal movements of the canal.

It has been removed from the canal and been taken to the studio.

The canvas  was installed for PROJECT FOR CANAL and was visible from the 2nd Street Public Dock, Brooklyn.

The central image of this work is a scaled representation of the earth (bottom left) and the moon (upper right), set 109 inches apart.

The large stenciled number imposed across the canvas,‘1:2294’, gives a ratio by which the viewer can begin to judge the distances involved - one inch on the canvas represents 2,294 miles, e.g. the real mean distance to the moon is 109 X 2294, or about 250,000 miles.

ABOUT THIS WORK

This work not only documents a spatial relationship crucial to the identity of the tidal canal itself (e.g. the moon causes tides) but also recasts the surrounding landscape in this cosmic scale; according to the ratio, the next closest planetary neighbor (Venus) is almost 11,000 inches up the canal, or .17 miles, just past the Union Street Bridge.  In the other direction, Jupiter is found somewhere out by the Statue of Liberty.