A Book In Every Home (Right Page Blank)
Installation, photographs, 2009
Edward Leedskalnin (Latvian: Edvards Liedskalniņš) (August 10, 1887, Stameriena, Latvia – December 7, 1951, Miami) was an Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the monument Rock Gate Park, also known as Coral Castle, in Florida. It is said by locals and admirers to be one of the true wonders of the world. How he built his home and garden out of more then 1.100 tons of coral rock remains today a mystery. Beside this he left behind some writings which are containing his political views and some unusual theories on magnetism. The book on magnetic currents starts like this:
Magnetic Current
By Edward Leedskalnin
Rock Gate
Homestead, Florida, U.S.A.
Copyright October. 1945. By Edward Leedskalnin
This writing is lined up so when you read it you look East, and all the description you will read about magnetic current, it will be just as good for your electricity.
Following is the result of my two years experiment with magnets at Rock Gate,seventeen miles South-west from Miami, Florida. Between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Latitude and Eightieth and Eighty-first Longitude West.