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Architecture and City Planning Sculpture and Installations Garden and Landscape 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. 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
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image
Format
Stone (rock); relief (sculpture techniques); carved limestone
Form/Genre
landscape architecture public sculpture Conceptual; concrete poetry environmental art site-specific works sculpture gardens monoliths outdoor sculpture public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb29367579
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Scottish Contemporary Poetry Megalithic monuments Language (verbal communication) Waves Space (composition concept) Landscapes (environments) University of California, San Diego--History Landscape architecture Public sculpture Conceptual Concrete poetry Environmental art Site-specific works Sculpture gardens Monoliths Outdoor sculpture Public art
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