Bacon’s idea was a mirror. A long, narrow, shallow plane of water aligned exactly between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument so that, depending on where you stood, the marble Lincoln dissolved into the sky and the obelisk multiplied into two. Roughly 2,030 feet long, 167 feet wide, 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches in the middle. The whole point of those measurements was that they should vanish.
This is a key part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool history that often gets glossed over. The pool is not a swimming pool, despite what one architect told NPR last month about “pool guys” refinishing it like Mar-a-Lago. The pool is an optical instrument.
I’m surprised he didn’t paint it gold.
The ‘new’ color is a darker blue than an actual pool, and darker than the gray concrete of the pool floor. This is a destruction of it’s original intended purpose.
Yeah, well I wanted it to be ten feet deep with tiger sharks.
We don’t always get what we want.
With frickin’ laser beams?
