TO MARK THE fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the South Pole Station in Antarctica, I arrived at the South Pole to create art as part of a National Science Foundation fellowship.
I created three works: for the first, Marking Time, I planted fifty-one flags along a half-kilometre stretch of a moving ice-sheet marking the spot where the geographic South Pole stood during each year since 1956; for Endangered Time, twenty-four flags were placed around the South Pole to warn of the imminent threat of extinction of twenty-four endangered species. The flags were inscribed ...
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