Tinplate 5
TINPLATES nr 5, 2018*
The shape of the plates comes from five islands in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi.
First the sheet ,metal has been heated in an impactor, after that processed by hand with wooden mauls of different kinds.
Tinplate 1 Treasure Island—outside Mexico, first mapped by Kapten Flint 1754. 144cm diameter
Tinplate 2 Bensalem—in the Pacific Ocean close to Solomon Island, mapped by Francis Bacon 1657. 220cm diameter
Tinplate 3 Island of Despair—in the gulf of Ornico first mapped by Robinson Crusoe 1659. 175cm diameter
Tinplate 4 Houyhnhnms—discovered 1711 by Kapten Lemuel Gulliver. 110cm diameter
Tinplate 5 Foollyk— close to Tierra del Fuego, mapped 1730 by abbé Pierre Francois Guyot Desfontaines. 95cm diameter, on stand 230cm
*see notes