BGuthrie Photos: Metro Station -- Archives Navy Memorial Penn Quarter (art)

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1. METNM_070422_04.JPG: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter Entrance passageway, between bottom of escalators and mezzanine. Ocean Piece, 1995 Jorge Martin Marble 67' l x 9.6' h Gift from the Metropolitano de Lisboa (Lisbon Metro) of Portugal. Created by Portuguese artist Jorge Martins, this work incorporates the poems Ocidente by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and Prayer of Columbus by American poet Walt Whitman. Ocean Piece was created by the artist to evoke notions of the constant ebb and flow of life. Ocidente (The West), 1934 Fernando Pessoa Com duas mãos - o Acto e o Destino - Desvendámos. No mesmo gesto, ao céu Uma ergue o fecho trémulo e divino E a outra afasta o véu. Fosse a hora que haver ou a que havia A mão que ao Ocidente o véu rasgou, Foi a alma a Ciência e corpo a ousadia Da mão que desvendou. Fosse Acaso, ou Vontade, ou Temporal A mão que ergueu o facho que luziu, Foi Deus a alma e o corpo Portugal Da mão que o conduziu. Prayer of Columbus, 1874 (excerpt) Walt Whitman With two hands - Deed and Fate We have unveiled in the same gesture, one Raises the flickering and divine torch While the other draws the veil aside. Whether the hour was ripe or it owned The hand that tore the Western veil, Science was the soul and Audacity the body Of the hand that unveiled it. Whether the hand rose the glittering torch Out of Fortune, Will or Tempest, God was the soul and Portugal the body Of the hand that bore it All my emprises have been fill'd with Thee, My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee, Sailing the deep, or journeying the land for Thee; Intentions, purports, aspirations mine-leaving results to Thee. O I am sure they really come from Thee! The urge, the ardor, the unconquerable will, The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words, A message from the Heavens, whispering to me even in sleep, These sped me on. By me, and these, the work so far accomplish'd (for what has been, has been); By me Earth's elder, cloy'd and stifled lands, uncloy'd, unloos'd; By me the hemispheres rounded and tied-the unknown to the known. Jorge Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1940. Ongoing political and social issues forced him to flee the country in 1961. He created an atelier in the U.S. in 1975, and a second in Lisbon in 1986. Mr. Martins has works in both public and private collections in Lisbon, Porto and Islands, Paris, Denmark and Luanda, and a range of works in public space, such as Ocean Piece, a high relief in the Metro Station Archives/Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. (1995).
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Wikipedia Description: Archives – Navy Memorial – Penn Quarter (WMATA station)
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Archives–Navy Memorial–Penn Quarter (formerly Archives and Archives–Navy Memorial) is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Green and Yellow Lines.

The station is located in Northwest Washington at 7th Street between Pennsylvania and Indiana Avenues, and it is very close to Gallery Place-Chinatown, so close that the lights of one station can be seen down the tunnel from the other. It takes its name from the nearby National Archives, the U.S. Navy Memorial, and the Penn Quarter neighborhood in which the station is located. It is a popular stop for tourists, with easy access to the northern side of the National Mall. Service began on April 30, 1983. Until 2005, the station was simply known as Archives-Navy Memorial. At that time it was renamed Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter, in recognition of the nearby Penn Quarter neighborhood.

There is a provision for a future second mezzanine at the south end of the station, with a knock-out panel visible on the station's south wall.
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2007 photos: Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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