New Joe Hale Show at Gallery 31


August 14, 2014

Fathom

In progress installation shot. (Courtesy of the artist.)

Hale has been heavily influenced by inaccurate historical maps and clocks from revolutionary era France. The name Fathom is employed for its simultaneous meaning as: an anthropometric unit which is the span across two outstretched arms, to imagine or understand something, and to measure a depth of water. The piece itself has a one-fathom diameter.