Silent Key: Deleted Entities 1925 - 1996
Deleted Entities 1925 - 1996 consists of scans of QSL cards from hams operating in political entities that no longer exist such as the USSR, Nazi Germany, Korea and China during Japanese occupation, Japan and Germany during American occupation and Colonial Africa. When sorted by continent and date, the result is a spatial and durational mapping consisting of 115 pieces in an array 6 feet high by 55 feet long. The archive is inevitably incomplete - there isn't necessarily a card for every continent from every year - these gaps cause the grid to resemble a musical score or perhaps even the rhythm of morse code.
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 RK-1583, April 21, 1931 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) today: Russian Federation (independent 1991) 4 of 115 parts |
 DE 2741-R, December 3, 1934 Deutschland today: Federal Republic of Germany (disestablishment 1945) 7 of 115 parts |
 MX2B, March 18, 1936Manchou-kuo today: part of the People's Republic of China (reincorporated 1945) 10 of 115 parts |
FI8AC, May 18, 1938 French Indochina today: Socialist Republic of Vietnam (independent 1954, unified 1976) 12 of 115 parts |
 PK1VY, June 26, 1938Java, Netherlands East Indies today: part of the Republic of Indonesia (independence finalized 1949) 15 of 115 parts |
 OK1PZ, May 23, 1938Czechoslovakia today: Czech Republic (independent 1993) 16 of 115 parts |
 D4ADN, September 27, 1946Berlin District - US Army today: part of the Federal Republic of Germany (US administration dissolved 1949, reunified 1990) 21 of 115 parts |
OQ5BW, February 9, 1947Congo Belge today: Democratic Republic of the Congo (independent 1960) 27 of 115 parts |
 ZC6UNJ, November 12, 1948Palestine today: Palestine (partitioned 1947, dissolved 1949, disputed with Israel) 31 of 115 parts |
 CR6AQ, March 15, 1948Angola, Portuguese West Africa today: Republic of Angola (independent 1975) 32 of 115 parts |
 AC4RF, February 25, 1949Tibet today: part of the People's Republic of China (invaded 1950, disputed) 34 of 115 parts |
 FA8IH, December 3, 1950Algeria today: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (independent 1962) 41 of 115 parts |
 VP1BOY, September 22, 1951Belize, British Honduras today: Belize (independent 1981) 42 of 115 parts |
 DM2ADB, February 23, 1958Deutsche Demokratische Republik today: Federal Republic of Germany (reunified 1990) 58 of 115 parts |
 ZS6IF/8, December 17, 1959Basutoland today: Kingdom of Lesotho (independent 1966) 60 of 115 parts |
OK2-5485, March 17, 1962 Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) today: Czech Republic (independent 1993) 71 of 115 parts |
 YO7DL, November 3, 1964Rumanian People's Republic today: Romania (renamed 1990) 77 of 115 parts |
UA3NU, November 20, 1964Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) today: Russian Federation (independent 1991) 78 of 115 parts |
 HZ3TYQ/8Z4, January 13, 1965Saudi Arabian/Iraqi Neutral Zone today: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Iraq, (border settled 1991) 80 of 115 parts |
 OK3CAU, November 18, 1968Czechoslovakia today: Slovakia (independent 1993) 90 of 115 parts |
 4S7DA, December 24, 1969Ceylon today: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (independent 1948, renamed 1972) 92 of 115 parts |
 ZE3JJ, April 5, 1970Rhodesia today: Republic of Zimbabwe (independent 1965, renamed 1980) 100 of 115 parts |
 U19AAB, March 5, 1990Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Republic of Uzbekistan (independent 1991) 110 of 115 parts |
UA0KBY, November 23, 1991Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) today: Russian Federation (independent 1991) 113 of 115 parts |
All works:
2008
Pigment prints
115 parts: 11 x 8.5 inches; framed 12.5 x 10 inches