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Description: Site specific installation and performance (work in progress)nAltannFairy-Tales, 1999nPlasy MonasterynnWhen I began the sand counting project. I was transporting a bag of sand on the subway back from the beach wondering how many worlds it might contain. A more precise question at the time would have been how many New Yorks? In 250 B.C., the mathematician and engineer Archimedes calculated the number of grains of sand that would fill the heavens and the earth. He arrived at 1054:n1,000,000,000,00
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