The Mississippi Model Exhibit Fills Expanded CLUI Gallery Space
The second installment of The Center's Model Earth Project (MEP),
The Mississippi Model Exhibit, is currently up in the newly
expanded CLUI Gallery in Oakland. The exhibit consists of twelve
11"X14" color photographs taken of the 200 acre outdoor
model site.
A CLUI researcher and a photographer visited
the site, located near Jackson, Mississippi, last January, and
were impressed by the appearance of the extensive and disused
Army Corps model. The model served the Army Corps for thirty
years as an aid in designing the elaborate flood control structures
that tamed the course of the Mississippi River, and that stabilized
it for commercial shipping. The model now lies abandoned in
a 600 acre clearing next to a public park.
The Mississippi Model Exhibit will be up
at the CLUI Gallery until October, after which it may travel
to another venue in the San Francisco Bay Area. The third installment
of the Model Earth Project, a continuing photodocumentary essay
on functional miniaturized landscape models, is expected to
be displayed next spring.
