On a beautiful clear day, Batuz arrives with assistants and photographers at the military section of the international airport Carrasco. Here he is met by officers of the Uruguayan military to whom Batuz introduces the current undertaking.
With the assistance of a surveyor from the municipality of Carmelo, together with assistants they begin to plot the markers for the line of forms in tension stemming from the painting from Batuz in the Guggenheim collection.
Batuz here explains to the officers the procedure of the act. He shows here that the participants need to be at arms length from one another. He explains to the officers how it is necessary for the participants to go through the various steps which are essential to creating not only the work of art but also the symbolization it represents.
While the surveyor and assistants continue plotting the markers, Batuz informs the group of soldiers how they are to shroud themselves with the bed sheets collected from surrounding public hospitals. This shrouding is to cause the effect in the snowy conditions of the Antarctic of overcoming borders as it will then blend the line, in this case representing a border, with the snow, causing it to disappear.
Once the soldiers had been given their individual marks and all other prior preparations undergone, Batuz and photographers boarded a helicopter to take a preliminary view.
Having approved the formation, and giving last orders from the ground, the same group as before boarded once again the helicopter from which Batuz was able through radio transmission to give the various commands for the act.
Here we can see the scale of the work that is to be recreated in the Antarctic. The soldiers before a military hanger stand hand in hand along the entire line of the forms in tension.
From the air, due to security reasons it was impossible to fly directly over the participants. A small loss to the documentary of the event yet they came close enough that these images remain as representation for the forms in tension desired. Here, the soldiers stand in solitude as their shadows play together with the form that their formation has created.
Having been given the command by Batuz from above, extra soldiers approached those in formation with the sheets collected and distributed them, along with some assistance others needed in order to give fluidity to the act rehearsed for the first time.
Again, unable to fly directly over in order to gain the documentation desired, from this angle we can see the final part in the act where the participants are covered with their individual bed sheets, and while holding hands, symbolically representing the overcoming of the border.