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Richard Long, County Cork, Ireland, 1967
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Long was a key figure in recasting sculpture in two directions: inward toward the gestures of bodies in space and outward toward the creation of ephemeral works made directly in the landscape. A student of the sculptor Anthony Caro at Saint Martins College of Art, Long was well versed in the reductive quality of geometric abstraction but sought to make the form of his works even more elegantly simple and wedded to life. He would go for solitary walks in the English countryside, and at a particular place he would create elemental forms such as a line, an x shape, or a circle by walking over the ground to leave a temporary imprint. A photograph such as County Cork, Ireland – in which the shape seems to hover in the image like a flying saucer – is thus an imprint of an imprint; the form of the work is derived from the holistic relationship between the concept (idea), the action of the body (figure), and the site of his gesture (ground). It is also informed by an astute understanding of the profound links between British culture and the landscape, from prehistoric hill figures through nineteenth-century theories of the Picturesque.
![Greg Otto 1980
“Otto’s work at this time was solely in pencil; thousands of minute, individual graphite marks worked up into dense, iridescent masses, or left as light, scattered flecks across the sheet. [—-] Some drawings are completely covered by thousands of tiny pencil marks with little of the paper showing through, which creates a calm uniformity of surface when viewed from a distance, but reveals a dense thicket of pencil lines when seen close-up. Others may have small and irregular light areas that appear to shine out of the graphite darkness, or edges that fade away like thinning clouds or smoke. Otto also created his drawings on a very large scale, producing similar abstract graphite works on primed canvases that measured up to eight by nine feet; works that are monumental in scale but still built up from the smallest of pencil marks.” (From the Francis Frost website http://www.francisfrost.com/ottomain.html)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0924c2X5S1qziek0o1_500.jpg)
Greg Otto 1980
“Otto’s work at this time was solely in pencil; thousands of minute, individual graphite marks worked up into dense, iridescent masses, or left as light, scattered flecks across the sheet. [—-] Some drawings are completely covered by thousands of tiny pencil marks with little of the paper showing through, which creates a calm uniformity of surface when viewed from a distance, but reveals a dense thicket of pencil lines when seen close-up. Others may have small and irregular light areas that appear to shine out of the graphite darkness, or edges that fade away like thinning clouds or smoke. Otto also created his drawings on a very large scale, producing similar abstract graphite works on primed canvases that measured up to eight by nine feet; works that are monumental in scale but still built up from the smallest of pencil marks.” (From the Francis Frost website http://www.francisfrost.com/ottomain.html)
Ruth Asawa
