40.4406°N / 79.9959°W · United States
Two rivers come in, one goes out. Where they meet, the land narrows to a triangle with a green tip, and downtown is packed into it; everything else climbs the wooded slopes on either side.
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.
The Allegheny arrives from the upper right, the Monongahela from the right across the lower half. They close in on each other and become a single broad river that leaves for the upper left, past a long island. Between the two arms the land comes to a point, and downtown fills the triangle behind it, densely gridded and tied to both banks by bridge after bridge. At the very tip lies a green triangle: Point State Park, where the three waters meet.
Now look at the slopes. This map has no relief layer, yet the hills read twice over: as bands of green along the steep sides above the rivers, because the woods there are in the data, and as streets that give up the grid and wind in loops over the high ground. Across the Allegheny, a green frame around a square marks the old commons of a town that was once separate. The rail lines along each bank, by contrast, are drawn too pale to count.
Green has a real part on this sheet: the slopes are wooded, the woods are in the data, and they make bands along all three rivers. Choose a green clearly apart from the water, so that each bank reads in two layers, the river and the slope above it. The three rivers share a single ink; take it deep enough for the bridges to cross it as clean lines. The winding streets of the hills need nothing more than the line weight of the streets themselves.
Portrait, the confluence in the middle, so the Allegheny has room to come in from the top right and the Ohio to leave by the top left with its island. The hills beyond the rivers fill the corners and can be cut without loss. Come closer and the bridges and the two street patterns of the triangle sharpen, but the Ohio shrinks to a stub, and a confluence needs the river it makes.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. The map names none of its three rivers; the caption can name yours, or the bridge you crossed, or the hill you climbed home.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is not in the catalogue, but you will find it in the palette library, filed under its material.
Opens the colour workshop with these 16 inks in place: change one, keep the rest.
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In 1784 the Town of Pittsburgh was laid out for the Penns, John Penn and John Penn Jr., and the plan was approved in Philadelphia by their attorney, Tench Francis; the survey set the future boundaries of the city. Come close in the configurator and you will see two sets of streets inside the triangle between the Allegheny and the Monongahela, one following each bank, meeting along a seam.
Across the Allegheny, the plan for the Town of Allegheny designated land for common pasture in 1784, the same year as the Town of Pittsburgh. Allegheny City dedicated it as a park in 1867, and of the original hundred acres, eighty-four remain. It is the green frame around a square on the far bank, just above the river.
The thirty-six-acre park at the tip of the triangle was completed and dedicated in 1974; come close and its fountain, which throws water more than a hundred and fifty feet into the air, shows as a small round basin. There the Allegheny and the Monongahela merge and the Ohio begins, to end nine hundred and eighty-one miles later at Cairo, Illinois, where it empties into the Mississippi.
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Upstream or down, north bank or south, the triangle or the hill above it: in this city everyone lives on one side of the water or another. Frame yours, and the rivers will say which.
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