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The Vanishing Row

Author
Lumír Hladík
Year
1977
Technique and size

Action

Location - an autumn field near Český Brod

About work

I formed an arithmetic row of randomly and locally found objects that I collected from an autumn field: soil, straw, grass blades, pebbles and frozen ice. The distance between the items was 10 m and the row was 1 km long. A string provided me with guidance and was removed once the piece was finished. The row-forming items were not distinguishable from the environment they originated from. Although invisible, they were indisputably doing their job of being -de-randomized into a temporary state of order. As time progresses they will return to their destiny of unrestricted and uninfluenced entropy.

Photo

Photo author: author´s archive
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