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.
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