When 0.5m away from the eye, each degree on this scale corresponds to 1° of arc
Notes
>> on a gallery wall, it takes you outside that space > could be called ‘the visible universe’ > allusion to sight is important // gradations could be on the side > don't need to be labeled, given the specificity of the text and the fixing of the canvas to the wall / gradations could actually be on the front as a series of straight lines // would handwritten text detract from the exactitude of the statement? the geometry of the lines could offset this, possibly // maybe it could be two canvases > black and a white one? whatever, the colour is important // typographic text with bruised surrounds radiating out to a flat colour > text as the centre of the universe, its big bang
Lawrence Weiner, Statements
One standard dye marker thrown into the sea
One aerosol can of enamel sprayed to conclusion directly upon the floor”
A 2" wide 1" deep trench cut across a standard one car driveway
One quart exterior green industrial enamel thrown on a brick wall
Ambiguity within these "as to whether one was nominating as art what was referred to by the text, or offering the text itself as some sort of art in itself" (25)
Universe paintings
Peter Doig, The Milky Way; Sidney Nolan, The Galaxy