https://omeka.westernsydney.edu.au/adelta/files/original/eb94ea4f2e8c3631d8e0b073efeece14.png 86954b3dd0178ec21ec9dd721a3ae268 ADELTA Item Items included in the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art (ADELTA). Work URL The URL of the original work, included as an HTML link. <a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/75.2008/">http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/75.2008/</a> Source of Description The source of information included in the Description, included as an HTML link to the relevant URL where possible. <a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/75.2008/">Excerpt from the Art Gallery of New South Wales' website</a> Genre Installation Platform Software platform or means of display e.g Installation / YouTube / HTML / Flash / Twitter / QuickTime Installation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lewis_Raft Title A name given to the resource Raft Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lewis, Ruark Carter, Paul Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995 Description An account of the resource The idea of a raft is of something lashed together, an inventive solution to a problem, of making do from available materials, of creating something which may be lifesaving. A raft also suggests travelling, and specifically travelling over water. This particular raft however is associated with the desert through the text laboriously stenciled onto its surface. It is a raft therefore which could never have the opportunity to float. The text begins in one corner of the structure and unfolds continuously in 24,948 characters which comprise several thousand words in six different languages. It can not be read in an unbroken sequence however as whole lines are obscured by the structure of the raft itself, by the object created to float these ideas expressed in words.<br /><a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/75.2008/">Excerpt from the Art Gallery of New South Wales' website</a> Language A language of the resource English/Latin/Greek/Arrernte/Dieri Subject The topic of the resource Installation Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder. Installation Paul Carter Ruark Lewis