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Mile Long Drawing

Mile Long Drawing, 1968
Mojave-dezerto, California, USA

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

drawing

Collection · 87 items

land art

Collection · 25 items

minimalism

1 sub-collections · 12 items

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Walter De Maria
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Untitled (Pocket Drawings)

William Anastasi’s Pocket Drawings are made by marking folded sheets in his pocket while walking, creating abstract traces of movement. Part of his “unsighted” practice, they explore chance, motion, and perception, translating physical experience into subtle visual forms.

William Anastasi

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

drawing

Collection · 87 items

land art

Collection · 25 items

minimalism

1 sub-collections · 12 items

Related

Walking piece

Las Vegas Piece

Walter De Maria’s 1969 Las Vegas Piece – mile-long bulldozer lines forming a square in the desert – was hard to find even then and is now barely visible. The work’s elusiveness was central to the experience, emphasizing remoteness and chance.

Walter De Maria
Walking piece

Pride Square II

Pride Square II is a series of 12 small drawings that attempt to capture the energy and personality of a person walking through a busy public square in Sydney's Inner West suburb of Newtown.

Melinda Hunt
Curated news

Talking with Tony Smith

The sculptor-painter-architect, Tony Smith, born in South Orange, New Jersey in 1912, is one of the best-known unknowns in American art. Most people involved in the art world around New… Source: Talking with Tony Smith

Walking piece

Untitled (Pocket Drawings)

William Anastasi’s Pocket Drawings are made by marking folded sheets in his pocket while walking, creating abstract traces of movement. Part of his “unsighted” practice, they explore chance, motion, and perception, translating physical experience into subtle visual forms.

William Anastasi
For Mile Long Drawing, De Maria drew two parallel chalk lines a mile long in the Mojave Desert, bringing Minimalism outdoors.

“For Mile Long Drawing, the artist chalked two parallel lines 12 feet apart for the length of a mile in the Mojave Desert in California. This was one of his first land art pieces which saw him transport his minimalist ideas from the gallery to the outdoors. Obviously, the markings didn’t last long as they were drawn with chalk, and so the temporary nature of the work draws attention to the passing of time and the idea is that change is constant.” – Roisin McVeigh, Dazed Digital

APA style reference

De Maria, W. (1968). Mile Long Drawing. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/mile-long-drawing/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

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