- Resolution:
- 1920px x
1920px
- Width:
- 244 cm
- Height:
- 244 cm
Title: Ypres, 1915
- Artist profile:
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Sarah Hatton
- Description:
- Detachment series.
Brass fasteners, acrylic, wire on canvas tarpaulin, 2016.
These charts show how the night sky would have appeared over the sites of several major battles of the First World War, on the dates of the final day of combat.
The stars are physically marked by century-old brass fasteners that were removed from the archived personnel files of 640,000 Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) soldiers, as part of a massive digitization project by Library and Archives Canada. Each one of these paper records was detached from its fastener by hand, in preparation for the task.
- Year of creation:
- 2016
- Type(s) of use allowed by the artist:
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Exhibition, Reproduction, Professional Services
- Photo credit:
- Pierre Laporte Photography
- Type of Work:
- Mixed media
- Medium:
- Mixed techniques
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