Text: Blindtext: the meter," Duchamp glibly noted about this piece, but hispremise for it reads like a theorem: "If a straight horizontal thread one meter longfalls from a height of one meter onto a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases [it] creates a n

Blindtext: the meter," Duchamp glibly noted about this piece, but hispremise for it reads like a theorem: "If a straight horizontal thread one meter longfalls from a height of one meter onto a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases [it] creates a new image of the unit  of length." Duchamp dropped three threads one meter long from the height of one meter onto three stretched can- vases. The threads were then adhered to the canvases to preserve the random curves they assumed upon landing. The canvases were cut along the threads' profiles, creating a template of their curves creating new units of measure that retain the length of the meter but undermine its rational basis.