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| 'Better
Scenery' 2000/2001/2002
3 pairs of installed signs
(various dimensions/materials)
Also: 3 pairs of photographs (each image 40” x 30”)
'Better Scenery' 2000
[Text on sign in Sainsbury’s car park, London]
Better Scenery
.From Flagstaff, Arizona take route 89 northeast, then route 510
east, then 505 northeast for 7 miles until you reach a left turn
soon after passing Maroon Crater. Follow this dirt track (the 244A
) for 6 miles northeast passing the volcanic formations of The Sproul
and the Merriam Crater on your right. Half a mile beyond a small
well take the track that heads north towards Little Roden Spring.
After exactly 6.7 miles a rough, overgrown cinder track leads off
to the left. Head west along this for a quarter of a mile until
you reach a fence post. Then walk 100 yards 160° south SE. At
this point stop and face due east (visible on the horizon are the
Roden Crater and the glow of pink rocks in the Painted Desert ).
Situated here, in this place, is a sign which describes the location
of this sign you have just finished reading.
[Text on sign in Arizona desert]
Better Scenery
Heading north out of London along the west side of Regent’s
Park is the Finchley Road (A41). Follow it through St John’s
Wood and half a mile beyond to Swiss Cottage. From here, bearing
north-west for a quarter-of-a-mile the Finchley Road veers towards
West Hampstead. Keep Holy Trinity Church and the Laser Eye Clinic
to your right and Finchley Road Underground station to your left.
Then take a left turn, following the graceful curvature of the prodigious,
concrete and glass, O2 building. This takes you down a steeply inclined
unmarked road which opens out to an expansive tarmac car park bordered
to the north and south by the tracks of railway lines.
Situated here, in this place, is a sign which describes the location
of this sign you have just finished reading.
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'Better Scenery' 2001
[Text on sign in Grizedale Forest, Lake District,
England]
Better Scenery
With
the Duke of Aosta monument behind you drive from Piazza Castello south-east
down Via Po out of Turin. Across the river, you will be facing the
Gran Madre Church. Turn right and go 5.5 km along the road that runs
by the river bank to Moncalieri, past the cemetery’s red brick
walls. When the road widens keep to the right and drive on to the
traffic lights at Piazza Caduti per la Libertà. Now turn left
and follow signs to the industrial estate across the flyover and past
the car scrap-yard on your right. After the bend, take the SS 393
road to a roundabout and turn left. Then past the shopping centre
car park turn right into Via Achille Grandi. After about 100 m the
road ends in front of a tall hedge. Leave your car in the car park
on the left. Cross the street and walk through the white gate of Italdesign-Giugiaro
at No.25 where you will be directed to door No. 10 of the Styling
Milling Department. Upon entering, face the wall to your left.
Situated here, in this place, is a sign which describes the location
of this sign you have just finished reading. [Text
on sign in car factory, Turin, Italy]
Panorama Migliore
Uscendo da Ambleside, Cumbria, dirigersi a sud, verso il Centro
Visitatori di Grizedale. Una volta giunti al parcheggio, procedere
fino all’ingresso del negozio. Qui, guardare in direzione
sud-est e seguire i pali a strisce rosse, fuori dal giardino cinto
di mura. Dopo essere passati attraverso la porta verde praticata
nel muro, girare a destra e seguire la strada per Home Farm. Una
volta giunti alla fattoria, girare a sinistra, per entrare nel campo
attraverso il cancello. Ricordarsi di richiudere il cancello! Camminare
o pedalare lungo il sentiero in salita che attraversa i prati, oltrepassare
il recinto del bestiame e raggiungere la strada. Girare a sinistra
e dirigersi a sud, attraverso gli antichi boschi di querce. Il sentiero
che conduce a Hall Wood costeggia dei campi sulla sinistra. A 1,5
km dal recinto del bestiame, in direzione ovest (a destra), vi è
una distesa di arbusti di mirtillo ai piedi delle querce, con un
ruscello che scorre verso sinistra.
In questo punto preciso, un cartello descrive il luogo in cui si trova l'insegna che avete appena finito di leggere.
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'Better
Scenery' 2002
[Text on sign in Islington, London, UK]
Better
Scenery
Go North down 10th St and turn west onto 12th Avenue. Continue west
on 12th out of Fargo until you see the big Supervalu warehouse on
your right. Take that exit onto Interstate 29, heading North towards
Grand Forks and Canada. After about 30 minutes (maybe 28 miles)
you want to look out for the Gardner exit, which comes soon after
you see four big silver grain bins on the right hand side of the
road. Turn east and go about a quarter of a mile until you see a
stop sign. Then turn left going north - you're now in Kinyon Township
- for maybe three miles. That would get you to a crossroads. Then
turn east again. (In the distance you’ll see a tree line running
along the horizon. The Red River runs behind it). One half a mile
further on you’ll come to a farmstead on the south side of
the road. This is the Pratt farm. Come into the yard, pass by the
machine shed and at the shelter belt turn left into the soybean
field. Standing facing you is a sign. It describes the location
of the sign you have just finished reading.
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[Text on sign
in Fargo, North Dakota, USA]
Better Scenery
Turning left immediately outside the entrance to Angel tube station
you need to go down the hill a bit until you reach the traffic lights
at this big, chaotic cross roads. There’s a Co-op bank on the
other side of the road - but still on the Islington side - so cross
over towards that, then pass it, walking along Pentonville Road. Maybe
15 yards along this in the middle of the pavement is a large shrub
right in front of the Family Planning Association, which is in the
dark glass and bronze-coloured rectangular block of a building on
your right. A brown railing runs across the pavement at the point
where Angel Mews begins. Stand in the entrance of this little street
with Whittles House to your left. Following the line of black bollards
which run along the pavement of the mews you’ll see, facing
you, in a corner next to a broken concrete lamp post a single ash
tree. In its branches about 8ft off the ground you’ll see a
sign. It describes the location of the sign you have just finished
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