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“Sitting with a pencil in each hand and a drawing board on his lap, his elbows at an angle of 90 degrees, his shoulders away from the back rest, Anastasi was operating as a seismograph, allowing the rhythm of the moving train - its starts, stops and turns, accelerations and decelerations, to be transformed into lines on paper…”
- Pamela Lee
1968 | source: artnet.com
In 1968, William Anastasi began a series of “blind” subway drawings. Riding to and fro daily chess games with John Cage, he’d sit on the edge of his seat with closed eyes and let the train’s movements determine the course of his drawing.
Subway Seismograph is a project inspired by this series, that invites people to mimic Anastasi’s process and submit their drawings to this site.
