29.4241°N / 98.4936°W · United States
The river here takes the long way round. It slips through the centre in a string of bends, then, just east of the main square, turns hard and loops back on itself, while a short straight channel cuts across the neck of the loop.
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The San Antonio River comes down from the top of the sheet as a thin, winding thread lined with green, and crosses the centre from north to south in a string of tight bends. To its west, a second, straighter stream runs the same way: San Pedro Creek. Between the two lies the old centre, its streets running in shifting directions around a few open squares. Just east of the main square, the river turns hard and loops back on itself; a short, straight channel cuts across the neck of the loop, and a spur of water leaves it towards the east, ending in a small pool that shows when you come closer. Around all of it, a ring of motorways closes the centre in heavy curves.
Water is thin everywhere here: the river and the creek are threads rather than masses, and they read as much by the green along their banks as by the water itself. Towards the top of the sheet, Broadway leaves the centre for the north-east, where the large green of Brackenridge Park lies beyond the frame. The rail lines to the east are drawn too pale to read.
Water is a thread on this sheet, never a mass: choose an ink strong enough to hold a line a millimetre wide, or the river and the creek will vanish among the streets. Green helps, because it follows the banks and doubles the width of the river where it runs through the parks. The streets of the old centre change direction often; a mid-tone line keeps those shifts readable, with the darkest ink kept for the ring of motorways.
Portrait, a little north-east of the engraved point, which sits on the main square: the river from the top edge down through the centre, San Pedro Creek to its west, the loop and its spur, the ring of motorways around them. Brackenridge Park to the north, and the river’s course further south, lie beyond the frame. Pull back and the river grows longer but thinner; come closer and the loop and its channel sharpen, at the cost of the creek.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. Between a river and a creek, the caption can say which water was nearer: a bend of the river, a corner by the creek, the bridge you crossed every day.
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.
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In July 1731 the survey of the new settlement, the Villa de San Fernando de Béxar, laid out its main plaza, known today as Main Plaza, with the church on one side and the seat of government on the other. The rest of the land between the San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek was allotted as farmland. That is why the old centre sits between two streams, with the main square at its heart, beside the engraved point.
First opened in 1914 as a three-block park without sidewalks, the River Walk was expanded by 1941 into twenty-one blocks of walkways designed by Robert H. H. Hugman, a storey below the street, along the river through the centre. On the sheet it follows the green-edged thread of the river, round the loop and back.
In preparation for the world’s fair of 1968, HemisFair ’68, the city excavated an extension of the river through the new Convention Center to the grounds of the fair: some 1,800 feet of new channel, ending in a pool large enough for the river boats to turn. It is the short spur of water that leaves the loop towards the east, with its pool at the end.
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You crossed it on the way to work, walked beside it on Sundays, sat by it on summer evenings. On this sheet the river winds exactly as it did, and your bend is in it.
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