Blind Time L is a record of its own making. It documents the act that brought it into being: a straightforward task, described in the artist’s handwritten text on the drawing, that was determined beforehand and executed in a rather perfunctory manner. These sorts of acts, sometimes referred to as task-based performances, proliferated in the 1960s and ’70s, as ways of separating both expression and deliberation from the act of creation, making each work’s composition the result of a predetermined formula and shifting its emphasis from its final form to an exposition of its process. A prolific and influential artist, Morris was a pioneer of this practice; by executing his Blind Time drawings with his eyes closed, he introduced the element of chance and further distanced his control as the artist of the final composition.
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