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The Flag of Ireland as
Rearranged by the Mail
The Temple Bar Gallery
Dublin, Ireland
July 2001
During preparations for an exhibition
at the Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin I noticed that some mailed correspondence
took considerably longer to arrive than others. As a way of exercising the
distance between Ottawa and Dublin, I designed an artwork. Everyday for 192
days I mailed a postcard-sized piece of the flag of Ireland from my studio to
the gallery. If the cards had arrived in the same sequence in which they were
mailed, the flag would have been reconstructed faithfully. That however was
not the case and the result is an abstraction as created by the rhythms of
the mail.
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The flag ready to go in the studio. The
cards were
mailed from the left to right and top to bottom. April 2000.
The flag as reassembled in Dublin.
I was surprised; despite the distance and time, the flag
was much less distorted then I had anticipated. July 2001