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This piece consisted of twelve large floating words of various colors which
corresponded to two designated zones within the pond. The two zones, one
designated "a mine," the other "a market," paralleled
the flow of water in the pond in order to suggest a movement from raw material
to finished product. The lexicon of each zone avoided direct literal reference
to its zone and required reader/viewers to create figurative or narrative
solutions for the groups of words in view. Assemblies were primarily determined
by the reader/viewer's location as he or she investigated points of view
around the pond, but words could also be grouped more abstractly by color
or typeface. The lexicon was configured as follows:
placement (zone) word size typeface
color floating
(a market)
buckle 3'x5'x2" Gaudy Medieval,
blue upright
"reduff" 3'x5'x2" Typewriter,
orange upright
swarm 3'x6'x2" Caslon Italic,
yellow upright
"bell" 3'x4'x2" Caslon Italic,
green upright
"oat" 2"x3'x3' Empire,
orange flat
"no sale" 3'x12'x2" Typewriter,
yellow upright
"oiling" 2"x7'x4' Poppel,
green flat
glug 3'x4'x2" Typewriter,
green upright
calc 3.5'x4'x3" Caslon Italic,
orange upright
"rune" 2"x3.5'x3' Gaudy Medieval,
blue flat
bingo 3"x6'x6' Empire green,
flat
"dagger" 2"x10'x3' Fraktur,
black upright
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