Barbara Bloom
Globe
New York City, USA: Self-published, 1995
40.6 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 40 signed and numbered copies [+5 AP]
“There was a time when black chalkboard globes were a staple of classroom paraphernalia, and children were expected to be able to draw the outlines of the continents and nations of their world. They are still used in the teaching of physics and astronomy, not to test memorized knowledge, but to demonstrate phenomena that do not stand still: the coriolis effect, polar coordinates, wind and ocean currents.
On Globe the land masses are fixed with white paint, but political boundaries and names wait to be sketched in, erased, revised to reflect the political counterpart to the coriolis effect.”
- Barbara Bloom
Bloom turns 69 today.
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