PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL For U.S. BABEL-TowER PROJEC
PROPOSAL: 100 solid brass towers, each 1000 metres in height, designed to resemble at once Mjes's unexe-
cuted Mile High Skyscraper and the conventionaloil-well derrick; these to be erected at points determined by
opulation density across the entire expanse of continental U.S.A., except for Alaska (where anothe project is
already und
Locals to polish
y 10 years to conform with census results
FINANCIA PLAN: Maximum efficiency to be attained by exploitasooextordineryethodology
equal to thegrandeur of the project itsefinatual fact, viz., oblivl publigsdBsa ption accord
ing to the ut us ground aw of the e orably intentioned 1 % for en publi construction gildeline. Only
take for a entire land of the country, and facilitate construction by yin 7% Of the Big N tiona!product
for 1980-8 and pach tenth year after. Possibly impossible? Patience, please! Alpegdy substantial means unrol
ily the Sun -Belt fills deeper with freedom-loveable ununione
helpers, whoanyway eoy tptan. Now also with the regularizecbreapportionmental juggles for the congress-
seats, everynd gyitelb
defense m illi gedpadditpop coursing ere, down where the monies ofthe oil also, re。 ember, ever gleam
in their newesstmustmahsmall grants for the studies of possible closings and arf-selling possibilities
regarding public ar ngltewYork beundertaken: too mych eljiindividal painting and im
age-hewer art for th
sculptural artlike works pro
R. Smithson, z. B., ever dreamt to do. Also, ceestilow, and big out-foldersi te history books
not long beyond. In such ways art operations more eatly onsolidated can become, more readily enabled
for response to the great westwardly shiftings of the sbirted modern international good-competitional art
and life pace!
ed ps! Even with old American Revolution-timé ship bases et, steady flows of
be democratic-type
nboy cahfeossible makebiera all which
sreven smaller.
JOSEPH MATHECK
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