Statements
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Laurence Weiner
1968
A field cratered by structured simultaneous TNT explosions
A removal of an amount of earth from the ground The intrusion into this hole of a standard processed material One sheet of plywood secured to the floor or wall One regular rectangular object placed across an international boundary allowed to rest then turned to and turned upon to intrude the portion of one country into the other A removal to the lathing or support wall of plaster or wall board from a wall One standard dye marker thrown into the sea A piece of masonite painted allowed to dry Sanded for a certain time elapsure with a standard flat finishing sander And secured to the wall or floor One sheet of transparent plastic secured to the floor or wall A rectangular canvass and stretcher support with a rectangular removal f rom one of the four corners sprayed with paint for a time elapsure Common steel nails driven into the floor at points designated at time of installation An amount of paint poured directly upon the floor and allowed to dry A series of stakes set in the ground at regular intervals to form a rectangle Twine strung from stake to stake to demark a grid Two sheets of standard 8-1/2” X 11” typing paper bonded at equal distance from on either side of the white line of the Los Angeles Freeway The utilization of a broken double o r otherwise line in no way alters the intent Three minutes of forty pound pressure spray of white highway paint upon a well tended lawn The lawn is allowed to grow and not tended until the grass is free of all vestiges of white highway paint One sheet of clear plexiglass of arbitrary size and thickness secured at the four corners and exact center by screws to the floor One square limestone slab of arbitrary thickness One sheet of brown wrapping paper bounded even with the edges to the top surface of the limestone One hole in the ground approximately one foot by one foot by one foot One gallon water base white paint poured into this hole Four strips of linoleum of arbitrary width cemented to the floor edge to edge with the forth strip one width shorter than the preceding three One aerosol can of enamel sprayed to conclusion directly upon the floor One standard interior grade sheet fo ur foot by eight foot by three quarter inch plywood secured at the four corners and exact center by screws to the wall