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These plastic symbols are are the permanent elements of aeroplanes that will not change with the change of design. These symbols, these forms, I have used in paralyzing disproportions in order to impress upon the spectator the miraculous new vision of our time. To add to the intensity of these shapes, I have used such local colors as are to be seen on the aviation field, red, blue, yellow, black, gray, brown, because these colors were used originally to sharpen the objects against neutral backgrounds so that they could be seen clearly and quickly. 

The second panel of the same wall contains objects commonly used around a hangar, such as a ladder, a fire extinguisher, a gasoline truck, scales, etc. These objects I have dissected or reorganized in the same homogenous arrangement as in the previous panel. 

In the panel “Early Aviation”, I sought to bring into elemental terms the sensation of the passengers in the first balloon to the wonder of the sky around them And the earth beneath. Obviously this conception entails a different problem [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]] from those previously cited. In fact, each of the walls presents a different problem concerning aviation and to solve each one, I had to use different concepts, different [[strikethrough]] plastic [[/strikethrough]] form of qualities, different colors. Thus, to appreciate my panel of the first balloon, the spectator must seek to imaginatively enter into the [[strikethrough]] miraculous [[/strikethrough]] sense of wonder experienced by the first baloonists. In the shock of surprise everything changes. The sky becomes green. [[strikethrough]] The sun is black with astonishment on beholding an invention never before created by the hand of God. [[/strikethrough]] And the earth is spotted with [[strikethrough]] such [[/strikethrough]] elliptical brown forms such as had

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