Being in the world
Merz made his drawing last all day and didn’t take the pencil off the paper. I’m not going to attempt that. A re-enactment is part interpretation and ritual.
It was only by chance that I discovered how to respond to Merz’s time in the field: I doodled carelessly on one of the grass photos. Instead of faithfully recreating Merz’s grass drawing, I want to draw on as many photos as it takes for my time in the field.
Merz’s work that day was about ‘being in the world’ and not painstakingly reproducing what he saw in front of him. Each drawing should be mindless, about nothing. The question is, how long can I sustain thoughtless drawings?
