Observe Seek Challenge - Richard Long - A Line Made By Walking 1967 / Andy Goldsworthy

 This photograph shows a straight line of trampled grass receding towards tall bushes or trees at the far side of what appears to be a field. 

Below the photograph, on the off-white paper mount, are the words ‘A LINE MADE BY WALKING’ (handwritten in red pencil) and, below this, ‘ENGLAND 1967’

The Photograph shows an action or the evidence of a process or action. 

Richard Long says 

"Nature has always been recorded by artists, from prehistoric cave paintings to twentieth-century landscape photography. I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work, but in new ways. I started working outside using natural materials like grass and water, and this evolved into the idea of making a sculpture by walking … My first work made by walking, in 1967, was a straight line in a grass field, which was also my own path, going ‘nowhere’. In the subsequent early map works, recording very simple but precise walks on Exmoor and Dartmoor, my intention was to make a new art which was also a new way of walking: walking as art."

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Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy (1956 -    ) 

British Sculptor

Andy works mostly in the landscape using materials found in the location to make a sculpture he leaves where he made it. Often, as he can sculpt using ice, snow or leaves, the photograph he takes is the only record

If while he is scouting for a location or walking it rains then he will lie down on an interesting piece of ground to create what he calls a rain shadow a dty patch

Rain shadow

St. Abbs, Scotland

June 1984

Leaf horn

Penpont, Dumfriesshire

15 November 1986

Like a Nature based street artist, Andy Goldsworthy leaves the sculptures he has made in location once they are completed and photographed

Sticks and stalks/pushed into muddy lake bottom, Yorkshire, Sculpture Park. 29 April and 8 May 1987

In the Spring and Early Summer of 1987 Andy Goldsworthy was Artist In Residence at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall and made a series of natural material sculptural pieces in the Park. As a 1st Year Leeds University Art Student based and living at Bretton Hall, Mr Higgins would have been less than a mile away doing a Drawing, Painting and Printmaking Landscape Project and drawing from the Henry Moore sculptures that were sited around this lake.