Richard Long : Nature Trace

“My art is in the nature of things

I like the idea of making something from nothing

I can walk all day and sleep all night following an idea

I use the land without need of ownership

My talent as an artist is to walk across a moor
or place a stone on the ground

My work is about movement and stillness
the walking and the stopping places
it can be passing by or leaving a mark

I use intuition and chance body and mind
time and space

I use the world as I find it”(from the exhibition brochure)

Richard Long is a Landscape Artist whose work are about actions in nature.

He makes circle on land or piles stones by repeating action.

This traces are all defferent, depending on the place, the time and the circumstances.

This below picture is a famous photograph, called 'A Line Made by Walking' in 1967.

Richard Long began walking as an art form as a way of considering scale, distance, dimensionality, time and space, and has been doing it ever since. The walks are often documented by photography, text or maps as appropriate, and these become artworks in their own right. It was very satisfying for me to see such an extensive body of work all together

– and to recognise many old friends that I have long known in reproduction.

I was particularly interested in his use of black and white photography, which together with lettering and printing techniques,

both ‘dated’ the works and also gave a sense of an endless journey through time.

His focus is upon the landscape. Whether his walks have been taken close to home in England, or in remote areas of the world such as the Sahara or the Arctic Circle, there is, on the whole, no sign of human activity in the photographs – only the signs of his own passing through. (http://throughstones.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/richard-long-exhibition/)

Muddy Water Fall, 1984

This work is trace of muddy water.

He recorded the process of falling water as a paint.