To Scale

Twenty-one of the 1,087 works have a measured 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 measured · 36 to 3 square feet · one scale throughout

Umbrella with Compact Discs 144 × 50 in · 15.3 sq ft

Umbrella with Compact Discs 2, 1990s (est.) — Umbrella with Compact Discs 255 × 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.

Merry Christmas 1, 2013 — Merry Christmas 145 × 76 in · 23.8 sq ft

Untitled (Figures with Discs), 2020s (est.) — Untitled (Figures with Discs)51 × 67 in · 23.7 sq ft

Seven Gold Discs57 × 59 in · 23.4 sq ft

CD Cross on Lace 2, 1990s (est.) — CD Cross on Lace 243 × 69 in · 20.6 sq ft

Big Boy 2, 2020s (est.) — Big Boy 239 × 67 in · 18.1 sq ft

Red Cross with Discs46 × 51 in · 16.3 sq ft

Untitled (CDs and Triangle)55 × 42 in · 16.0 sq ft

Face With Planes40 × 55 in · 15.3 sq ft

Umbrella with Compact Discs 144 × 50 in · 15.3 sq ft

Triangle with Boxing Gloves52 × 39 in · 14.1 sq ft

Crowned Snowmann with Discs32 × 51 in · 11.3 sq ft

Twin Tongues, Twin Targets45 × 34 in · 10.6 sq ft

Untitled (Page on Targets)32 × 42 in · 9.3 sq ft

Untitled (Page on Bands)29 × 40 in · 8.1 sq ft

Untitled (Three CDs, Arrow)37 × 29 in · 7.5 sq ft

Discs Over Traced Figure27 × 39 in · 7.3 sq ft

Two Discs, Heart22 × 32 in · 4.9 sq ft

Three Discs with Heart19 × 30 in · 4.0 sq ft

Untitled (Football Collage)19 × 25 in · 3.3 sq ft

Four Discs, Two Fields14 × 31 in · 3.0 sq ft

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What is not here

1,066 of 1,087 works have no recorded size. They are absent from this page rather than estimated 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 were measured the same way: 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 disagreed by more than the recorded rounding can account for, the work was left out.

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