- Artist
- Richard Long CBE born 1945
- Medium
- Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 270 × 305 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1976
- Reference
- P07148
Display caption
Richard Long leaves the studio to create work in outdoor settings. During walks he subtly marks his presence. In the works represented here, he records a temporary impression on turf and picks daisies along two lines to form an ‘X’. These interventions won’t last, but are made permanent in the form of photographs. ‘These works are of the place, they are a rearrangement of it and in time will be reabsorbed by it. I hope to make work for the land, not against it,’ he said.
Gallery label, September 2023
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