UNDA: detail view of single stone block; facing toward the west with Pacific ocean in the background

UNDA consists of five stone blocks into which are carved, in various sequences, the letters U, N, D, A, and an S-like mark which is the editor's notation for "transpose these letters." The letters on each block in the sequence carry out the transpositions indicated by this curved mark so that regardless of the order of the letters, each block ultimately spells out UNDA. In the course of the multi-part sculpture, the wave sign rolls through UNDA, the Latin word for wave, while the tops of the stones are aligned with the distant horizon of ocean. A literary cycle is identified with the cycle of the natural wave, an association which the artist relates to the velocity and flow of language.

• 1987

• Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)

• Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary)

• Finlay, Ian Hamilton (Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, 1925-2006)

• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)

Thurgood Marshall College; La Jolla, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

stone (rock); relief (sculpture techniques); carved limestone

• Conceptual
• Concrete poetry
• Environmental art
• Landscape architecture
• Monoliths
• Outdoor sculpture
• Public art
• Public sculpture
• Sculpture gardens
• Site-specific works

• University of California, San Diego--History

• Contemporary
• Landscapes (environments)
• Language (verbal communication)
• Megalithic monuments
• Poetry
• Scottish
• Space (composition concept)
• Waves

Point: 32.882436, -117.241321

• image

Architecture and City Planning

Garden and Landscape

Sculpture and Installations

• Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary)

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