What looks in a photograph like a classic California pier is actually the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, a 1,084-foot research facility operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego — one of the longest research piers anywhere.
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Name:
"The Path"
Ref. Number:
0394 (Limited Edition - 777 copies)
Location:
California, USA
Artist`s Tale:
La Jolla Pier Is A Working Laboratory, Not A Boardwalk
What looks in a photograph like a classic California pier is actually the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, a 1,084-foot research facility operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego — one of the longest research piers anywhere. It`s not open for casual strolling the way a typical tourist pier would be; access is generally restricted to researchers, since scientists have been taking daily seawater temperature and salinity readings from its end since 1916, producing one of the longest continuous ocean-condition records in the entire Pacific. The original 1916 structure, funded by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps herself, was replaced by the current concrete pier in 1988, but the daily measurements never stopped — the same basic method, a sample lowered by hand into the water, has been repeated at this exact spot for well over a century. "The Path" leans into the geometry that makes the pier photogenic in the first place: its straight, converging lines running out toward the horizon, leading the eye toward open water rather than toward any of the research happening at the far end. It`s a different kind of built structure than "Viva Las Vegas", elsewhere in this collection, which frames the choreographed water and light of the Bellagio fountains rather than a quiet research pier.Awards:
The Contest Finalist in The 1st ROYGBIV Color Awards Winners Gallery 2015.
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