Welded steel, 40 x 85 x 56, 1998.
“March” is a month, a way of walking and a body of people moving through a city, and the sculpture’s one repeated form fits the first two. It is a long, low, dark body, eighty-five inches across and forty high, with a round basin set into the top at one end. Three parallel grooves run out from the basin across the slab, equal in length and spacing, and they never merge.
Read as marching, they are three files advancing from a common point. The pace is the same, the spacing is kept and the direction is shared, which is what marching means. Read as the month, they are three streams leaving a pool. In northern climates March is when ice goes and water begins to run, and a basin with channels cut from its rim is a thaw in miniature. Both readings share one quality: what leaves the source does so in order and in one direction.
The rest of the body is plain. The slab ends in a rounded edge on a drum. A rod runs along the side like a rail, and a post with a ball on top stands at one corner. The bench-like mass holds the three grooves still, and the movement is carried by them alone.
