UNDA: view of installation process: crane lowering stone block into place
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Architecture and City PlanningGarden and LandscapeSculpture and InstallationsUNDA consists of five stone blocks into which are carved, in various sequences, the letters U, N, D, A, and an S-like mark which is the editor's notation for "transpose these letters." The letters on each block in the sequence carry out the transpositions indicated by this curved mark so that regardless of the order of the letters, each block ultimately spells out UNDA. In the course of the multi-part sculpture, the wave sign rolls through UNDA, the Latin word for wave, while the tops of the stones are aligned with the distant horizon of ocean. A literary cycle is identified with the cycle of the natural wave, an association which the artist relates to the velocity and flow of language.Digital Library Development Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/digital-library)Thurgood Marshall College; La Jolla, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
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Stone (Rock); Relief (Sculpture Techniques); Carved Limestone
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California Digital LibraryKeywords
- Conceptual
- Concrete Poetry
- Construction Sites
- Construction Workers
- Contemporary
- Cranes (Equipment)
- Environmental Art
- History
- Landscape Architecture
- Landscapes (Environments)
- Language (Verbal Communication)
- Lawns (Landscaped Grass)
- Megalithic Monuments
- Monoliths
- Outdoor Sculpture
- Poetry
- Public Art
- Public Sculpture
- Scottish
- Sculpture Gardens
- Site Specific Works
- Space (Composition Concept)
- Universities
- University Of California, San Diego
- Waves
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