<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>02</h2> <p>Personal Island, 1992 “Floriade,’ Zoetemeer, the Netherlands Site: An international garden show, inside a large park. The park is bordered, and cut through, by water. Program: A temporary installation, for four months, during the garden show. Project: A portable island. On land, a rowboat is sunk into the ground; its bow if filled with soil and grass, a tree growing out of the bow; the oars are embedded in the ground, as if rowing on land. You can step down into the boat, and sit inside, as if the land were water. Facing this boat, in the water, is its mirror-image: a rowboat wedged into a circular plane of grass. The rowboat combines with the grass: as in the rowboat on short, its bow is filled with soil and grass, a tree growing out of the bow. You can step our onto the grass plane, and into the boat, and row: the boat take3s with it the circular plane of grass – it pulls out of a semi-circular cut in the shore – you can row your island out to sea. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/personal_island/index.html">Personal Island</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/1992/index.html">1992</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Built/index.html">Built</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Circle-Spiral/index.html">Circle-Spiral</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Flying-Floating/index.html">Flying-Floating</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Islands/index.html">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Luis%20Vera/index.html">Luis Vera</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Netherlands/index.html">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parks%20and%20Gardens/index.html">Parks and Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Personal%20Island/index.html">Personal Island</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Portables-Vehicles/index.html">Portables-Vehicles</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Split-Separate-Strips%20and%20Strands/index.html">Split-Separate-Strips and Strands</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Watersides-Outlands/index.html">Watersides-Outlands</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/65/02_S.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/65/02_S.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/65/02_S.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>