8 Measurement Poems

Emmett WilliamsRobert Filliou

1966

Mixed Media, 191 × 7.5 × 3.5 cm; 180.5 × 5 × 8 cm; 182 × 6 × 3 cm; 181 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm; 175 × 4.5 × 4.5 cm; 92 × 4.5 × 8 cm; 77.5 × 6 × 5.5 cm; 79.5 × 5 × 6.5 cm.
Materials: 8 wooden sticks of different length with various objects

Collection: Private Collection, Brussels.

Excerpt of the conversation between Robert Filliou (RF) and Irmeline Lebeer (IL), Flayosc, France, August 1976.

Some of the objects are due to mere measurement. I thought of measuring things according to the criterion of the moment. For example, my height is of sixty-odd tomatoes, and I am 111,225 Copenhagen–Paris train trips old. The metric system itself, of course, can contribute to this identification.

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