Diffusion Billboard Opus 1982
In 1982 a long construction fence was being installed around the site for the new Lee County Justice Center. Tiité seized an opportunity to gain exclusive access to the entire perimeter —an eight-foot tall surface of unfinished plywood —as the “canvas” for a new painting stretching 1,585 feet long. On end, the mural measured 100 feet taller than the tip of the lightning rod atop of the Empire State Building. the work included stainless steel, traffic signs, chain link gates, Styrofoam and plastic components.
Tiité entitled the installation Diffusion Billboard Opus 1982 and proceeded to illustrate the the universe and life on earth based on information which at the time was widely perceived as reality in the C20th, plus his own vision of the future.
Selections from the work:
Detail from ”In The Beginning"
In the beginning there was nothing and nothing was the beginning of information
From proto-universe to the big bang
Partial view along State Highway 82 (M. L. K. Blvd.,) Fort Myers, Florida.
Detail from “The Big Bang."
This section illustrates the “inflationary universe” from the era of quantum gravity (0) through our present time, a period of 12 to 15 billion years. In 1979 Alan Guth, then at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, originated the “inflation theory.”
This stretch of the mural includes scenes from the origin of light, first galaxies, our solar system and the beginning of life on Earth.
It is thought that light and atomic nuclei originated at about 3.5 minutes after the Big Bang and Between that moment and 300,000 years later the first atoms took shape.