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         Christine Hiebert: Reconnaissance
         Three Wall Drawings
         Davis Museum and Cultural Center
         Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
         July 2009 - summer 2010

Reconnaissance is an installation comprised of three site-specific wall drawings, that were created in response to the architecture of the Davis Museum (designed by Spanish architect, Rafael Moneo), and that take into consideration the fifth-century Antioch mosaic (shown above) that is permanently installed on the museum's fifth floor Tanner Gallery where the wall drawings are located.

Mosaic: Floor from the Villa of Daphne,
Yakto Complex, near Antioch,
5th century C.E., mosaic (stone tesserae
set in concrete mortar) Davis Museum
and Cultural Center, Given by the Princeton Expedition for the Excavation
of Antioch and Vicinity (1936.33)