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Double Word Score

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Double Word Score [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Ivan Jurakic [2]
image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Ivan Jurakic [3]
Location:
Hendrie Park Gardens, Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West, Hamilton, ON, L7T 4H4, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Jurakic, Ivan
Text author(s): 
Jurakic, Ivan
Installation year: 
2005
Description: 

Double Word Score features a set of seven engraved granite paving stones that spell RISE and IRIS. The shape, font and scoring reference Scrabble tiles.

Text of the artwork: 

IRIS RISE

Artwork theme: 
Rest, knowledge, life and death

Dimensions:

Height: 
2.45m
Width: 
2.45m
Depth: 
0.05 m
Note(s): 

To rise alternately means to awaken, to appear above the horizon or to return from death. Iris is the botanical name for the genus of flower, but more importantly, it also refers to the act of seeing. In both the eye and the camera, it is the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the lense. Situated at a crossroads of nature and tourism, with several prominent cemeteries nearby, the engravings suggest the cycle of life and death as an unwinnable game.

Source: 
1. Ivan Jurakic 23 Murray Street West Hamilton, ON L8L 1B1 905.523.8865 ivanjurakic@sympatico.ca 2. TH&B (Simon Frank, Dave Hind, Ivan Jurakic, Tor Lukasik-Foss) tor@sympatico.ca 3. Royal Botanical Gardens 680 Plains Road West, Burlington ON L7T 4H4 T : 905-527-1158 sans frais 1-800-694-4769 F: 905-577-0375 info@rbg.ca www.rbg.ca
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[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/double-word-score
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/double word score3.JPG
[3] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/double word score.JPG
[4] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[5] http://plepuc.org/en/print/739
[6] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/double-word-score