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\nEach tank will be transformed into a canvas, which will host a portrait image of a well-known personality. The image will not be painted in a photorealistic manner; it will be stripped down to a fairly abstract level. In four quadrants around the tank one is able to see the same image in four different image resolutions.<\/p>\n
\nReferring to digital images, which are always based on pixels (aka Picture element – the smallest unit of a digital image, it holds only one color value in a square) the surface of the tanks will be divided into a grid of squares.
\nThe four stages will show an evolving series starting in the quality of a color field painting, progressing to the status of a passerby stating, “This must be a portrait.“ and ending at a resolution where one can identify the name of the person.<\/p>\n
The last two stages are based on two parameters. The first is given by the location. The viewer is able the see the tanks from rather far distances. The second is based on the original image material – carefully selected by the artist. The images are part of the American „collective image memory“ and therefore it is possible to recombine the image from the seen squares and the images „stored“ in the brain of the viewer.
\nThe system of four stages per personality only works as a concept for the sides of the tanks. The tops, which can be seen best from an airplane or in digital via Google Earth will be treated in a slightly different form. The tank tops are divided into groups and the personality spreads out over one to four physical objects. In this way, the images of faces will come into focus from a bird’s eye view.\n<\/p>\n
\nList of portraits:<\/b><\/p>\n
tank #42 Samantha Smith<\/a><\/p>\n tank #118 Leon Leonwood Bean<\/a> tank #111 Susan B. Anthony<\/a> tanks #111, #28, #5, #4 Marsden Hartley<\/a>\n<\/p>\n Competition website http:\/\/www.artallaround.com<\/a> Test with projector<\/p>\n Overview<\/p>\n Proposal images<\/p>\n
\ntank #13 Harriet Tubman<\/a>
\ntank 14 Benjamin Franklin<\/a>
\ntank #105 Martin Luther King<\/a>
\ntank #5 Thomas Edison<\/a>
\ntank #28 Amelia Earhart<\/a><\/p>\n
\ntank #42 Milton Bradley<\/a>
\ntank #118 Molly Spotted Elk<\/a>
\ntanks #13, #14, #105 EB White<\/a>
\ntanks #112, #113, #114, #207 Rosa Parks<\/a>
\ntanks #102, #103, #101 Harriet Beecher Stove<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMaine Center for Creativity http:\/\/www.mainecenterforcreativity.org<\/a>
\nplan for tank #105<\/a>
\nlocation at Google Maps<\/A>
\nand the winner is…<\/a>\n<\/p>\n![\"beamer.jpg\"](\"..\/..\/home2005\/art\/mcc\/beamer.jpg\")
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\nSprague Energy Corporation overview<\/p>\n![\"viewBdone-scaled.jpg\"](\"..\/..\/home2005\/art\/mcc\/viewAdone-scaled.jpg\")
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\nproposal view B (full scale)<\/a><\/p>\n![\"viewBdone-scaled.jpg\"](\"..\/..\/home2005\/art\/mcc\/viewBdone-scaled.jpg\")
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\nproposal view B (full scale)<\/a><\/p>\n![\"viewCdone-scaled.jpg\"](\"..\/..\/home2005\/art\/mcc\/viewCdone-scaled.jpg\")
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\nproposal view C (full scale)<\/a><\/p>\n
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