American Varietal (US Population, by County, 1790-2000)   2009
Encapsulated prints, 50 10' lights, electronics, five tons structural steel
10' 6" x 40' 6" x 5'.

Commissioned for the new US Census Bureau headquarters, this large, permanent, site-specific project is a “data-mural” where all form and color is derived from US state and county population information, 1790-2000. 

As the transformation of numbers into visuals is a tricky thing, the main question arising is, "How does one find a balance between truth-in-data and the pure joy of form?"  Our solution is a clinically plotted 3-dimensional "graph" whose prime purpose is a counterintuitive aestheticizing of information. 

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