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Proposal for the
Maine Maritime Museum to commemorate the largest wooden coal Schooner
and to celebrate the "magnitude of the task undertaken by the shipwrights"
in the building of these massive wooden vessels. The Wyoming, launched
in 1909 and no longer existing, measured 450 feet, taller than a seventeen
story building and carried over 6,000 tons of coal in her hull. The
massive volume of the Schooner is 'dematerialized' and transformed into
a memory ship of parts that integrate with the land. Masts and prow
rise up to full height in a linear projection of three-dimensional line
drawing in space. A hull section/gazebo built in the bow enables visitors
to 'enter' the drawing, and experience an area of the hull 'below Deck'.
Materials:
steel, aluminum, wood, concrete, glass, coal, paint |
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