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Noam Rabinovich's Gulf Stream Project
Dan Eban
Wild the rolling Sea,
Over which to Sado Isle,
Lies- the Galaxy
Basho
Noam Rabinovich's last project is paradoxically simple. He plans to use a series of elementary objects, dolosse, to mark the boundaries of the Gulf Stream on the bottom of the sea. Industrially manufactured, the dolosse (3086x3086 mm.) is a heavy concrete cast of a standard international form. It consists of four truncated pyramids, connected at their bases in a manner which emphasizes the three spatial dimensions. The dolosse, when not employed by Rabinovich to create cyclopean artworks, is used in various countries to construct wave breakers. Seen from above, a dolosse arrangement evokes a giant serpentine body poised to tame the ruthless assault of liquid masses. The wave breaker asserts the solidity of the terrestrial table and emphasizes the definition of the shoreline. Clear and stable, a dolosse construction is a power emblem expressed in terms of mass, assemblage and interaction. It moves certainly, like everything on earth, but very slowly and together. (See Postscript further on)
The execution of the project depends on capital and logistics. Mighty metal cranes will load the heavy elements on a mastodon ship. After accurate and complex cartographic calculations, the dolosse will be sunk in precise spots, like milestones, on the borders of the world's largest liquid causeway. The 5000 kilometers long, 100 kilometers wide, and about 700 meters deep Gulf Stream is more than an amazing natural phenomenon. The warm masses of air and water carried by the stream have a vast and favorable influence upon the climate of the neighboring land surfaces. The biotopes of many areas and implicitly the cultural patterns of various populations are, in many ways, indebted to the Gulf Stream's life-giving force.
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