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A single terracotta field on a warm ivory ground, split top to bottom by a winding pale opening that swells, pinches almost shut low on the sheet, and runs off both edges.

One Figure, Two Halves

120 × 150 cmInterpreted from measurements at La SaladitaArt by Addie Conner

How it was made

Anatomy board: One Figure, Two Halves. The data on the left, the painting on the right.
Anatomy board: One Figure, Two Halves. Panel 1 of 4Anatomy board: One Figure, Two Halves. Panel 2 of 4Anatomy board: One Figure, Two Halves. Panel 3 of 4Anatomy board: One Figure, Two Halves. Panel 4 of 4
The data on the left, the painting on the right. Open full size

A pale passage runs through one terracotta figure, opening and closing with a faint eight-hour rhythm measured in the air above La Saladita.

The air over La Saladita rises and falls in pressure on faint rhythms too small to feel; one of them, every eight hours, changes strength through the year: largest in January, nearly gone by September. Here that strength sets the width of the pale passage, month by month from top to bottom, so it narrows to about 14 millimeters in September and opens again toward winter, escaping past both edges.

Made from nearly three years of barometer readings at La Saladita, drawn with AI and mathematics, and chosen by the artist.

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