UNTITLED PROJECT: COMMODITY [CAPITAL], oil on carved wood, printed mail order form, 2007 >> a mail - order project
produced for the exhibition The Irresistible Force at Tate Modern in London ---- featuring a carved and painted copy of Karl Marx's Capital,
Volume I (1867) priced at # 18.99 + # 6.01 shipping and handling, which was at that time the
exact cost of the real paperback ordered from Penguin Books.
So unless the perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet is the
exact same thickness as the entire ice sheet (say 3 km on average), an area loss there, of 15 %, will
produce a much smaller %
volume loss, than say if this area loss were smack dab in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.