Weights, a graded set

Five weights standing in a row, each a different color because each corroded on its own.

Instruments

Obj 04

Record

Year
2025
Alloy
Leaded bronze
Size
180 × 101 cm
Medium
Archival pigment print
Availability
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The point of a set is that the pieces are the same. The point of this one is that they are not, because they were handled differently, stored differently, and lost at different times.

So the small one is nearly clean and the large one is almost unreadable. The middle three are the argument: three identical objects, three different two hundred years.

A private collection in Lisbon has this one. They wrote to ask whether the weights were accurate. They are, to the drachm, which nobody can see.

Surface 04
The third weight, where the handling stopped