To Scale

Twenty-one of the 1,087 works have an estimated size. Everything below is drawn at one number of pixels per inch, so the only reason two of them look different sizes is that they are.

21 works estimated · 36 to 3 square feet · one scale throughout

Umbrella with Compact Discs 1, 1990s (est.)
Umbrella with Compact Discs 1approx. 44 × 50 in · 15.3 sq ft
Umbrella with Compact Discs 2, 1990s (est.)
Umbrella with Compact Discs 2approx. 55 × 94 in · 35.9 sq ft

The same umbrella, twice

Two works, same subject, same decade, catalogued 16 plates apart. The archive has always shown them at the same size on screen.

Umbrella with Compact Discs 2 is 2.35 times the area of Umbrella with Compact Discs 1 — 35.9 square feet against 15.3. The difference was always in the record and never on the screen.

One foot
A compact disc, 4.72 in

All twenty-one, largest to smallest

Standing on one line, at the same scale as the pair above. End to end they run 67 feet. The largest is 12 times the area of the smallest.

Umbrella with Compact Discs 2, 1990s (est.)
Umbrella with Compact Discs 2approx. 55 × 94 in · 35.9 sq ft
Merry Christmas 1, 2013
Merry Christmas 1approx. 45 × 76 in · 23.8 sq ft
Untitled (Figures with Discs), 2020s (est.)
Untitled (Figures with Discs)approx. 51 × 67 in · 23.7 sq ft
Seven Gold Discs, 1990s (est.)
Seven Gold Discsapprox. 57 × 59 in · 23.4 sq ft
CD Cross on Lace 2, 1990s (est.)
CD Cross on Lace 2approx. 43 × 69 in · 20.6 sq ft
Big Boy 2, 2020s (est.)
Big Boy 2approx. 39 × 67 in · 18.1 sq ft
Red Cross with Discs, 1990s (est.)
Red Cross with Discsapprox. 46 × 51 in · 16.3 sq ft
Untitled (CDs and Triangle), 2020s (est.)
Untitled (CDs and Triangle)approx. 55 × 42 in · 16.0 sq ft
Face With Planes, 2000s (est.)
Face With Planesapprox. 40 × 55 in · 15.3 sq ft
Umbrella with Compact Discs 1, 1990s (est.)
Umbrella with Compact Discs 1approx. 44 × 50 in · 15.3 sq ft
Triangle with Boxing Gloves, 2020s (est.)
Triangle with Boxing Glovesapprox. 52 × 39 in · 14.1 sq ft
Crowned Snowmann with Discs, 2020s (est.)
Crowned Snowmann with Discsapprox. 32 × 51 in · 11.3 sq ft
Twin Tongues, Twin Targets, 1990s (est.)
Twin Tongues, Twin Targetsapprox. 45 × 34 in · 10.6 sq ft
Untitled (Page on Targets), 2000s (est.)
Untitled (Page on Targets)approx. 32 × 42 in · 9.3 sq ft
Untitled (Page on Bands), 2000s (est.)
Untitled (Page on Bands)approx. 29 × 40 in · 8.1 sq ft
Untitled (Three CDs, Arrow), 2020s (est.)
Untitled (Three CDs, Arrow)approx. 37 × 29 in · 7.5 sq ft
Discs Over Traced Figure, 2020s (est.)
Discs Over Traced Figureapprox. 27 × 39 in · 7.3 sq ft
Two Discs, Heart, 2020s (est.)
Two Discs, Heartapprox. 22 × 32 in · 4.9 sq ft
Three Discs with Heart, 2000s (est.)
Three Discs with Heartapprox. 19 × 30 in · 4.0 sq ft
Untitled (Football Collage), 2010s (est.)
Untitled (Football Collage)approx. 19 × 25 in · 3.3 sq ft
Four Discs, Two Fields, 2000s (est.)
Four Discs, Two Fieldsapprox. 14 × 31 in · 3.0 sq ft

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What is not here

1,066 of 1,087 works have no recorded size, not even an estimate. They are absent from this page rather than invented onto it. The archive does not know how big they are, and a page about size is the last place to imply otherwise.

The twenty-one that are here have an estimate, not a measurement: a compact disc is 4.72 inches across, so a disc lying in the photograph gives the scale of everything around it. Where two discs in the same photograph disagreed by more than the recorded rounding can account for, the work was left out rather than kept on a guess.

The rest need someone standing in front of them with a tape measure. Until then this page grows one work at a time — it is built from the record, so when a size is added it appears here without anyone drawing it. About the archive · The catalogue