Over...(scale sketch) screen print on four papers 396x54 (dimensions will vary)
This is a sketch of the Over... Project that I've been working on. The size of the tags are to scale. However, the overall shape of the piece and spacing of the tags may change. At least this roughly gives a sense of the area that I'm working with. I just couldn't see in my mind what 5,000 dog tags would look like, so I burned a screen and got to work pulling prints. I've ordered about half of the dog tags and the wire that they will hang from. So when they come in I'll have a better idea of what this piece will end up looking like.
I had originally intended to put this on a much taller, vertically-oriented wall (which would have changed it's proportions to something more like 5/6), but it's good to see on a wall like this because finding tall walls (30 feet or so) has been difficult. I may have to modify ...Over to the space(s) it ends up in.
In my critique, the possibility of this becoming a traveling exhibit came up. I like that idea. There was also a suggestion that it might change from site-to-site. I like that, too.