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Untitled (Pocket Drawings)

Drawings
New York, NY, USA

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

Conceptual

Collection · 11 items

drawing

Collection · 76 items

The Everyday

Collection · 48 items

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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
Walking piece

Roadstains Projects

Michael x. Ryan’s Roadstain projects capture urban traces of stains on streets and sidewalks. Through large-scale wood reliefs and small drawings, he reimagines these marks, creating an archive of memory and place, sensitive to the built environment and human movement.

Michael x. Ryan
Walking piece

Ashiato (Footprints)

Footprints by Akira Kanayama is a walkable artwork of stenciled shoe prints on vinyl. Spectators walk on or alongside it, creating a “double walker” effect that links bodies, traces, and space, blending physical movement with imaginative engagement.

Akira Kanayama
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

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

Conceptual

Collection · 11 items

drawing

Collection · 76 items

The Everyday

Collection · 48 items

Related

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
Walking piece

Roadstains Projects

Michael x. Ryan’s Roadstain projects capture urban traces of stains on streets and sidewalks. Through large-scale wood reliefs and small drawings, he reimagines these marks, creating an archive of memory and place, sensitive to the built environment and human movement.

Michael x. Ryan
Walking piece

Ashiato (Footprints)

Footprints by Akira Kanayama is a walkable artwork of stenciled shoe prints on vinyl. Spectators walk on or alongside it, creating a “double walker” effect that links bodies, traces, and space, blending physical movement with imaginative engagement.

Akira Kanayama
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
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.

Anastasi folded these sheets into eight squares, making them small enough to fit into his pocket. As he walked, he held a tiny, soft pencil against the exposed paper inside the cramped space of his pocket; the resulting marks graph his movements. When he deemed a section complete, Anastasi refolded the sheet, creating a new blank surface, and the process began again. “I love walking,” the artist has explained. “I find that walking does something to my thinking, to my mental process, that is different from sitting or lying down.” These “pocket drawings” are part of a broader practice that Anastasi has described as “unsighted,” including works made while walking (holding a pad, he looks at his destination as he draws) and riding the subway (the train’s stops and starts, bumps and turns, direct the line’s size, weight, and orientation).

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As found on MoMA's website.

APA style reference

Anastasi, W. (1969). Untitled (Pocket Drawings). walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/untitled-pocket-drawings/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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