E. Pluribus Unum, 2009
This large scale mandala depicts the names of one million organizations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice, and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture.
The actual number of such organizations is unknown, but Paul Hawken's "Blessed Unrest" project estimates the number at somewhere between one and two million, and growing. If the lines in this piece were straightened out, they would make an unbroken line of names, in a ten point font, twenty seven miles long.
Many thanks to Paul Hawken, Craig S. Kaplan, and Robert Bosch for their collaboration in creating this piece. The image is built from lines of text, made up of the names of the organizations described above. Standing up close, you can read these lines intersecting at different angles:
...and stepping a bit further back:
Stepping even further away, a complex geometric pattern begins to emerge:
Back further still, the names are not legible anymore-- but remember that's what all the lines are:
From this distance the names are so small that the lines look solid:
Now we’re standing about thirty feet back from the piece, and the panel you are looking at is the size of a movie screen:
...and back even further (we're almost there):
The title, "E. Pluribus Unum," is Latin, and translates to “The Many Become One." The two figures are drawn in for a scale reference:
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