Project for
a "1% artistic commission" at the Paul Duez Secondary School in
Leforest (north of France).
About visibility determined by solar light, about inventories, classifications,
lists, nomenclatures
Reflective
letters cover a southern-exposed wall in the school courtyard.
The letters are attached backwards. To read them, they must be deciphered.
The sun reflects off of the letters.
The text is thus projected onto the ground right-side-up and becomes
legible.
Letters
in mirror and stainless steel
Diagram of the solar projection
Detail
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The following
text presents working ideas which will be submitted to the students and
teachers concerned by the project. The final form and contents will be
the result of the synergy of this group work.
Text directions:
- Recreation space: 2.5m² per student
- 3,952 hours sitting, including 32 hours of detention L
- 8 hours standing at the blackboard
- Communication: 1,832 hours of talking
- 24,831,204 laughing fits
- 575 students out of 3,247,800 students
- January 1, 2007: the European Union has 27 members
- Demography: Over 9 billion humans in 2050?
- 7,710 € / annual cost per student
- 28% wear the same brand of shoes
- 141 are in love J
- 1,120 searches per second on the search engine Google US
- 8,279 text messages sent
- 9 or 12 planets? 8: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
and Earth
- 23,520 hours of classes annually
- 92,817,364,621 book bags and pencil cases opened
- Lost and found: 73 teacher-parent communication notebooks lost
- Evenings: 3,812 papers corrected
- 4,600 grades including 3% zeros and 2% twenty out of twenty
- 182 hours envying someone else...