Then I looked up - and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand!
I asked, “ Where are you going?”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo
With Zechariah’s vision in mind, and a measuring line in his hand (actually, about 30,000 red yardsticks), New York artist Gene Schmidt set out to measure the width and length of Manhattan, passing through a great diversity of neighborhoods, districts, and parks along the way. Each yardstick was numbered, used only once, and later stacked on Schmidt’s studio floor, forming a large cross-shaped sculpture. The performance/sculpture/pilgrimage took a little over a year to complete.
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photo by Alicia Hansen
