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For the <EM>Changes and Disappearances</EM> series, Cage dropped pieces of string onto a metal etching plate to produce lines, allowing gravity and chance to determine the forms those lines took (a technique he borrowed from Marcel Duchamp and Jean Arp). Lines that landed outside of the area to be printed he deemed \"disappearances.\"","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<SPAN lang=EN>\r\n<P dir=ltr align=left>Here, Cage alludes to Marcel Duchamp’s technique for chance-based composition by dropping pieces of string onto a metal etching plate to produce lines, allowing gravity to determine their form; lines that landed outside of the plate were deemed \"disappearances.\" The desire to represent indeterminacy, motion, and the experience of chance and fate motivated Cage’s methods throughout his practice. </P></SPAN>","remarks":"Migration and Material Alchecmy: Marquand Mather Rotation"}],"datebegin":1980,"sortnumber":"2006  849     1","published_date":"2026-03-31 02:38:28.810623","objectid":51680,"dimensions":"28.3 x 66.4 cm. (11 1/8 x 26 1/8 in.)","on_view":false}