The Channel Marker Poet #4706

Four lines get written at the handoff of every safe passage through the Narrows. Her collected works are scattered through the wheelhouse logs of forty merchant fleets, memorized by the giants. //----------- THE MARKS On October 6 THE CENSUS RELEASE was cut from 6,666 to 1,111. Five thousand five hundred and fifty five painted New Yorkers were seen, painted, numbered and then left off the count. THE MARKS are 150 of them. A census taker counts in tally marks: four strokes and a slash. These New Yorkers carry the mark instead of the number. This is Mark 115 of 150. The mint order was shuffled once before the drop and published, so nobody, the artist included, picked who got which. Every Mark is revealed the moment it is minted. Once one of THE ONES: counted first, sent back to the pool when KEYSTONE took that release's place, and left off the count again. One of the eleven at the center of THE MARKS. //----------- MOVES. The painting and its loop: click the art to play it.