32.7767°N / 96.7970°W · United States
The centre of Dallas looks like a sheet of squared paper laid slightly askew on another. The old town keeps an angle of its own, and the city that grew around it took others.
You choose the framing, the palette and the words of the caption. The work is drawn from real data, then printed to order in the workshop closest to you.
Downtown sits in the middle of the sheet, a tight grid of short blocks set at a slant to the compass, held inside a ring of motorways that wind around it in heavy curves. Beyond the ring, the streets change direction: grids turned one way to the north and east, another way to the south, across the river. To the west and south, the Trinity River runs through a broad band of green, a thin, winding channel inside a much wider corridor kept free of streets, crossed by a handful of bridges. At the right edge, a large green rectangle is Fair Park.
The meeting of the grids is the subject here, and the streets alone carry it: no wall or edge is drawn between them, only the point where a street changes angle. The rail lines that cross the centre are drawn too pale to read. The towers of downtown are buildings, and buildings are not shapes of the plan; on the detailed background they become a dense mass of footprints, without height.
Water is a minor voice here: the Trinity is a thin channel, and a pale ink would lose it inside the green of its corridor. Give it an ink clearly darker than the green, so that the channel reads as a line within the band. Green carries the large shapes, the river corridor and Fair Park. The rest is line work: the motorways in the darkest line and the grids in finer ones, which is where the changes of angle show.
Portrait, on the engraved point: downtown in the middle with its ring of motorways, the Trinity crossing the lower left in its green corridor, Fair Park at the right edge. The city spreads far beyond in every direction, and its outer neighbourhoods leave first. Come closer and the joins between the grids sharpen, block by block, but the river corridor leaves the sheet.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. In a city whose grids meet at an angle, the caption can say which side of the join you lived on: downtown, across the river, a street north of the ring.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is one of the configurator’s own palettes: you will find it there as you compose.
Opens the colour workshop with these 15 inks in place: change one, keep the rest.
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In November 1841, John Neely Bryan settled on the east bank of the Trinity River. The site he chose was the only spot to cross the river for miles: the town began at a crossing, and the downtown grid still sits on that east bank, just above the green corridor of the river.
Dallas was surveyed and platted in 1844: J. P. Dumas laid out a town site of blocks and streets. On the sheet, the centre is a tight grid of short blocks set at a slant to the compass, and beyond the ring of motorways the streets turn to other angles, one way to the north and east, another across the river.
Fair Park, a state and national historic landmark, spreads over 277 acres. Its Esplanade, a reflecting pool seven hundred feet long capped with three fountains, was built for the Texas Centennial of 1936. On the sheet, Fair Park is the large rectangle at the right edge.
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Making depends on the edition: 1 to 3 working days for Fine Art paper and wooden hangers, 3 days for the poster and the mounted frame, 3 to 5 days for the framed canvas. Transit depends on the country:
| Delivered to | In transit | In total |
|---|---|---|
| European Union | 5 to 7 working days | 6 to 12 working days |
| United Kingdom | 2 to 3 working days | 3 to 8 working days |
| United States | 4 to 6 working days | 5 to 11 working days |
| Canada | National delivery | Given at dispatch |
| Australia | National delivery | Given at dispatch |
These are standard delivery times and remain indicative. For a set date, order two to three weeks ahead.
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Frame it, and the angles will never move again: the old town square to its river, the city at a slant around it, and the street you called home somewhere in between.
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