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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.
Related
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.
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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