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Wide strips of gray felt, lengths of square aluminum shafts, silver ball bearings, and felt cut up like confetti are scattered across a wood floor in this installation photograph. The aluminum lengths create verticals and horizontals. Some of the felt is cut into squares, which are stacked or splayed, or into longer lengths that crumple like cooked lasagna noodles. The shiny ball bearings are mostly in pairs or trios, carefully placed in rows or columns across the composition. From afar, the felt scraps resemble dirt, also strewn across the space.
Barry Le Va, Equal Quantities: Placed or Dropped In, Out, and On in Relation to Specific Boundaries, 1967, gray felt, aluminum lengths, and steel ball bearings, Patrons' Permanent Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Edward E. MacCrone Fund, 2012.49.1

Equal Quantities: Placed or Dropped In, Out, and On in Relation to Specific Boundaries

Barry Le Va · 1967 · gray felt, aluminum lengths, and steel ball bearings ·  Accession ID  2012.49.1

Barry Le Va, Equal Quantities: Placed or Dropped In, Out, and On in Relation to Specific Boundaries (diagram 1), 1967, red and black colored felt-tip pen on tracing paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Edward E. MacCrone Fund, 2012.49.1.1

Equal Quantities: Placed or Dropped In, Out, and On in Relation to Specific Boundaries (diagram 1)

Barry Le Va · 1967 · red and black colored felt-tip pen on tracing paper ·  Accession ID  2012.49.1.1

Barry Le Va, Equal Quantities: Placed or Dropped In, Out, and On in Relation to Specific Boundaries (diagram 2), 1967, colored felt-tip pen over grahpite on graph paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Edward E. MacCrone Fund, 2012.49.1.2

Equal Quantities: Placed or Dropped In, Out, and On in Relation to Specific Boundaries (diagram 2)

Barry Le Va · 1967 · colored felt-tip pen over grahpite on graph paper ·  Accession ID  2012.49.1.2

Robert Morris, Blind Time I, 1973, powdered graphite with plate oil and graphite inscription on wove paper, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2004.131.1

Blind Time I

Robert Morris · 1973 · powdered graphite with plate oil and graphite inscription on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2004.131.1

Mel Bochner, Theory of Boundaries, 1969-1970, chalk on dry pigment on wall, The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund, 2004.123.1

Theory of Boundaries

Mel Bochner · 1969-1970 · chalk on dry pigment on wall ·  Accession ID  2004.123.1