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    • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
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    • 2018
      • Clouded Title
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Arterial Motives (2014)
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition (2014)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia (2014)
      • Proposals of Belonging (2013)
    • 2013
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest , Adrian Barron
    • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
    • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
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  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
    • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • The Dust: American Matter - Shandor Hassan
  • Past
    • 2018
      • Clouded Title
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Arterial Motives (2014)
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition (2014)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia (2014)
      • Proposals of Belonging (2013)
    • 2013
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest , Adrian Barron
    • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
    • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Little Free Library Blog
  • Reading Group
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610 869 4712

725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 
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Meridian Stone 
Kaori Homma
2014 - Ongoing


Kaori Homma's Meridian Stone combines the Homma Meridian with Street Road Rocks in an ongoing collaborative project: a stone taken from Street Road and carved with the longitudinal coordinates of the Greenwich Prime Meridian (0º0’0’’) is mailed to participants. Each artist/participant is asked to photograph the stone in a location geographically important to them, and to add a short personal narrative.

The project investigates our understanding of place and history - both personal and social - and the ways in which these intersect, highlighting the imaginary and movable nature of boundaries and questioning the perception of our position on the earth. 

Homma states: “As with the Greenwich Prime Meridian Line, boundaries and demarcations are necessarily a means of orientating ourselves within the increasingly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic social context we face in this shrinking world. However, at the same time these demarcations and boundaries also create tensions and barriers. The idea behind the Homma Meridian project is to draw an imaginary line which points to the North and South Pole in a specific location, using ephemeral material, which acts as a substitute for the “Prime Meridian”. 

Dozens of people from far corners of the planet have taken part, creating a collective set of personal meditations. Begun in 2014, the project is ongoing, has been displayed as a series of lightboxes, and will be published as a set in 2019. To participate, email us.
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Stonecarver Iain Cotton, in Bath, UK carved the meridian coordinates, and was also a contributor.​ He writes:

I was thinking about scale and placement. Where is this stone’s prime meridian? What are the right coordinates for these zero’s? How big should their footprint be? I was thinking about ellipses within ellipses, and figure/ground relationships, and little upside down right angled triangles connecting time and space. I was thinking about the clockwise and counter clockwise orbits of 3 mm of sharp tungsten. The rhythm of hammer on chisel. Breathing and being precise. I was thinking about hours, minutes and seconds. Not thinking about the time but remembering to count it. Carving time from my other deadline. 


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Open Friday 11am - 3pm or call 610-869-4712 or email to set up a visit, or, if you are driving by and see cars outside, just drop in. If you are far, far away, and can't visit in person, we do visits by Skype - email us to set up a virtual visit. We are on site multiple days a week and can accommodate most times. 
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A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendents are now located in Oklaholma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendents live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
    • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • The Dust: American Matter - Shandor Hassan
  • Past
    • 2018
      • Clouded Title
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Arterial Motives (2014)
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition (2014)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia (2014)
      • Proposals of Belonging (2013)
    • 2013
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest , Adrian Barron
    • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
    • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Little Free Library Blog
  • Reading Group