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“Andre does not work in or from a studio. He works on-site, within a specific context. He does not bring material to the site; instead, he identifies them at and for the site:”

(i shouldn’t be copying quotes — just noting them)
the illustration on the page opposite the quote — material: western red cedar — owner Fisher Art Foundation — installation Paula Cooper — was the cedar found on site — was it made for the corner of Paula Cooper — does it change when it’s shown somewhere else — does it ‘need’ to be in a corner (i like the idea of taking art like this and moving it — it has 2 more sides when taken out of the corner — does the grain of the wood matter — can the blocks be turned around (they can but does that change the work — (i’d tend to find the more interesting [to me] side or sides of the blocks (i’d spend a lot of time being undecided and then just put the last ones in place))

art as ideas and questions

concepts and uncertainties

“raw material”
this is an interesting concept — cedar blocks don’t seem to be a raw material for anything — (except the art ‘work’ (can the concept of ’work’ be eliminated — object

232 bot rt
repetition — anal concepts

death drives

stepping on the floor pieces — cf smithson’s ‘ruined’ (i start to write ‘work’ — what is glass on the floor — it’s not an object)
what about stepping in paint or something then walking on a floor piece — think about how the surface is changed when it is cleaned (or polished)

233 SPACE & TIME
most of this is meaningless to me — but it makes me think of works that are added to ‘over’ time — (my florida spool piece) a piece like one of andre’s floor pieces that is ‘built’ over time — ie one tile added each day — the pattern changed as the tiles are added

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find a ruler & work on graph pages

233 rt near mid

“Time is a passage from one point to another”

— i like this line