Mermoria hospit unis diei practereuntis -

* Text: Pascal's Pensée published 1660 translated by Trotter available from Project Guettenberg

* city - Paris, France.

Both title and meta -quote from Wisdom of Solomon 5. 15

- Pensée page 51

*Camera: Nikon 950 digital camera, Sony Handcam Digital 8

* winter solstice - December 21, 2001

* summer solstice - June 21, 2002

Blaise Pascal, (b. 1623) French mathematician, inventor and philosopher. Best know literary work is Pensée de Pascal in 1660. He made mathematical contributions to a number of important geometry problems as well as helped to lay the foundations of probability theory.

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Like its title, memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis or the remembrance of a guest that tarried but a day, this temporary installation/intervention exists as a physical reality for just one day or to be precise a series of single days between December 21, 2001 and June 22, 2002, winter and summer solstice respectively. The project commences at dawn (subject to seasonal variation) on the above mentioned dates at the Louvre Pyramid at dawn with section 72, Man's Disportion from Pascal's Pensées. The text will be distributed and recorded poetically over the immediate vicinity. Then the artist, Aprille Best Glover, will proceed in a spiral pattern sequentially though each arrondissement of Paris leaving and documenting the rest of the cut up text . The remaining text will be placed by chance correspondance with the environment. Travel will be by foot, metro or taxi depending on timing and fatigue. All recording by artist of installation while distributing text will be by digital photos. All video will be filmed while in transit. All other documentation is subject to chance. At any moment anyone can ask for some or all of the particalized contents of Pascal's Penées and artist will give freely. Anyone reguardless of direct authority can demand the removal of any or all particalized text. Any text so requested will be placed a seperate container for clairity and saved for documentation rather then placed in another section of the city. Artist shall continue to distribute text and document distribution until12:00 midnight June 22. At that point however close or far from the 20th arrondissement, the artist will stop, toss the lowest denominational coin available . Heads- all unused text is saved for dossier. Tails- all is tossed to the wind (excepting in a case where the removal of materials is requested). The artist will then proceed to the nearest pleasant cafe and drink to the health of all that read this schedule and the health of all who don't.

memoria hospitis unis diei praetereuntis*

*the remembrance of a guest that tarried but a day

installation for text, camera, solstice and city

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Aprille Best Glover

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memoria hospitis unis diei praetereuntis*

*the remembrance of a guest that tarried but a day

installation for text, camera, solstice and city

Copyright Aprille Best Glover 2001 All rights reserved.

The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it....It is an infinite sphere, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

- Pascal

Since everything, then, is cause and effect, dependent and supporting, mediate and immediate, and all is held together by a natural though imperceptible chain which binds together things most distant and most different, I hold it equally impossible to know the parts without knowing the whole and to know the whole without knowing the parts in detail.

- Pascal

A town, a country-place, is from afar a town and a country-place. But, as we draw near, there are houses, trees, tiles, leaves, grass, ants, limbs of ants, in infinity. All this is contained under the name of country-place.

Aprille Best Glover (b. 1964) Contemporary American sculptor