How do you represent
three-dimensional space on a two dimensional surface? That cartographer's
problem is explored a little bit in this collage.
Its hard to appreciate at first, but more than
180 degrees of side-to-side view and ~110 degrees up-and-down are squeezed
into this collage.
For this collage, I made sure that each photo
only lined up with the one above and below it. If I didn't then the
collage would end up looking like a blunt pyramid, with the cells converging
toward the middle as they reached the top (of both the dome and the
collage).
This technique lead to a spreading-out of the
dome, which reminds me of a blooming flower.
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Architect:
John Russell Pope.
Cornerstone laid: November 15, 1939. Finished 1943.
Height (floor to top of dome): 95' 8".
Statue: Rudolph Evans. 19' high, 5 tons.
National Park Service Official
Site. NPS's listing of Chamber
Inscriptions.
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God
eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind
of man."
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"God who gave us life gave us liberty.
Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a
conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I
tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his
justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave
is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of
fate than these people are to be free. Establish the law for educating
the common people. This it is the business of the state to effect
and on a general plan."
Other sources: A Summary View
of the Rights of British America, The Autobiography, Letters to
George Wythe and George Washington.
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"I am certainly not an advocate for frequent
changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must
go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes
more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new
truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change
of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with
the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat
which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever
under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments
are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that
these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent
states...And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance
on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
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attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens…are
a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion…No
man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship
or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious
opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by
argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know
but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively."
The last sentence is taken from
a letter to James Madison, August 28, 1789.
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Prints are available in color
and black & white (rollover the image to see).
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