UNDA: general view towards the west and the Pacific Ocean
Creator
Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.) Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-) Finlay, Ian Hamilton (Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, 1925-2006)
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Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Description
Sculpture and Installations Garden and Landscape For UCSD the artist created a one-word poem installed at one edge of the north playing field between the Humanities Building and the student apartments of Thurgood Marshall College.UNDA 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. The stones are rough-cut guiting, or English limestone, which was quarried near the Cotswolds and selected for its similarity to the color of the cliffs near the campus. A few eucalyptus and pine trees were planted on either side of the sculpture to make a connection with the distant trees, to frame the view, and to create the sense of a special enclave. UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Thurgood Marshall College; La Jolla, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
Type
image
Format
Stone (rock); relief (sculpture techniques); carved limestone
Form/Genre
landscape architecture sculpture gardens environmental art site-specific works concrete poetry monoliths public sculpture outdoor sculpture public art Conceptual
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb2424807d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Views (visual works) Landscapes (environments) Texts (document genres) Scottish Contemporary Poetry Waves Classicism Concrete poetry University of California, San Diego--History Landscape architecture Sculpture gardens Environmental art Site-specific works Monoliths Public sculpture Outdoor sculpture Public art Conceptual
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