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Two pastel monotypes by Charles Hobson mounted in buckets made from board, copper, wire, brass tubing & bamboo, with small book. Subject is an outgrowth of navigation and surrealism project. In the search for a relationship between Rene Magritte and Isaac Hawkins, who thought you could calculate longitude at sea by measuring high and low tides. Several initial ideas were sketched out and later abandoned. A photograph in a book of Magritte's studio showed two buckets on the floor - used buckets as measuring devices. Edition of 10.

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