Infinitude ( Homage to Hans Arp )
c. Michael St.Mark 2005

Collage relief, actual work, randomly placed mostly quadrilateral shards of white paper onto white paper, A4.  Intended as both tribute to and a progression from Hans ( Jean) Arp’s 1916/17 Dada Work of randomly fallen/placed  torn pieces of paper ( below ). Forerunner to Infinitude II, the artwork that inspired an Olympics.
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* Infinitude. First use of identical-colour collage in art.

• This unique work ( Infinitude 1 ) was produced and posted online with several thousand documented views, in *mid-September 2005 – most curiously at the precise same time as the artist Rachel Whiteread – after apparently months of indecisive deliberation – seemed to suddenly find the inspiration for the installation ” Embankment ” ( see Wiki screen-save below ), comprising hundreds of white plastic cuboids closely adhered together after being piled into random stacks on the Tate Modern Turbine hall floor.
  One could argue a close 3D version of ” Infinitude 1 ” in fact..

• An email enquiry as to the timeline of Whiteread’s conception and beginning of the assembly dates of ” Embankment” in October 2005 was met with silence by Tate directors.
• After which this was posted ( October 2005 )

Above. Documented as “visualized ” and constructed in secret during late September 2005

Below; Created and posted in the public domain on 16th September 2005.
Artist Advisory

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INFINITUDE ONE;
UPLIFT (2026 )

Random edges of the paper that have come loose in the intervening 20 years were slightly uplifted away from the surface by the artist and nd gently folded back in the reverse direction to which they were applied/

This action creates a new multi-shadow effect depending on the angle of light shone upon it.

Infinitude One Uplift ’26

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INFINITUDE II

The Artwork That Inspired an entire Olympics

Wolf Ollins’ shameless plagiarism