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MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN

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Rivers
2016

The Drift, Pittsburgh, USA

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a human bone inserted inside a boulder on the banks of the Allegheny



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an arrangement of cut flowers delivered to the PA Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey



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a human hand making contact with the 30” Thaw Refractor telescope at the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh



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a human hand making contact with the JEOL JSM 6335F Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope at the Center for Biologic Imaging



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a small bonfire on the banks of the Allegheny with driftwood compiled from around the world



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the 1818 book The Navigator, gifted and entered into the collection of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Mt. Washington Branch



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a rainbow produced over the Allegheny River for 500 seconds



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a piece of lead recovered from a sunken 17th century sailing vessel, melted and cast into a handrail on an abandoned speedboat on the Monongahela



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a text message sent from a remote location to a satellite phone at the confluence of the Ohio River



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Rivers
2016