- by richard long
- on top of mount fuji
- Simple creative acts of walking and marking about place, locality, time, distance and measurement. The music of stones, paths of shared footmarks,sleeping by the river's roar. ( quote from richards website )
- The work involved placing small rocks from the surrounding area into a straight line of roughly uniform width that stretched for several metres in length. However, Long has explained that he had originally intended to create a different work, indicating how working directly in a landscape can be affected by conditions that are out of the artist’s control: The sculpture A Line in Japan (1979) came about because my original idea had been to make a map work recording a circular walk around Mt Fuji, following the snow line. However, as there was no snow on the mountain at all when I arrived, I had to follow a different idea.
- I come to some mountains and I move some stones around and then I disappear. The mountains are changed, some stones are in a different place. But who has moved them and how it looks, that is not the important part. The only important thing is that the stones have been moved. They are visible but invisible as art.
This is another piece of work by richard along the same lines as this image
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