NEXT EXERCISE: POINT OF VIEW

Arnold Schalks, 1998, Waterline Tours, guided tour and publication, Guidebook, basics to achieve horizontal awareness, level reading, freeze the melting, artist-in-residence project Communicating Vessels, Ron Rocco, Horace Twiford, Jewish Community Center, Nelson Bay, Sailor's Snug Harbor, Sea Level, North Carolina, Kill van Kull, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York

Leave the bus and take a position on the sidewalk. Open the book, hold the transparency foil with the view finder vertical, and look through the frame, facing East. In the view finder you will perceive the present view of Richmond Terrace looking towards St. George.

On the left page of the booklet you can see a photograph of Richmond Terrace looking towards St. George, made 90 years before: in 1908. Compare the perspectives.

 

Arnold Schalks, 1998, Waterline Tours, guided tour and publication, Guidebook, basics to achieve horizontal awareness, level reading, freeze the melting, artist-in-residence project Communicating Vessels, Ron Rocco, Horace Twiford, Jewish Community Center, Nelson Bay, Sailor's Snug Harbor, Sea Level, North Carolina, Kill van Kull, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York

Richmond Terrace looking towards St. George, 1908