Discourse Text: Stuart Morgan's 'An Art Against Itself: Robert Smithson's Drawings

Key Points & Reflections:

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• Seeing void as actuality, p.1.
• "Space which may or may not be constructed as 'real', is inscribed with lines which function as edges. For the artist these lines are acts of work, meant to control and destroy space originally regarded as empty". p.1. This quote reminds me of my own work and the space I construct through reflection. 
• This void of the blank page is seen as space. 
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• Smithson's quote: "an art against itself... an art which always returns to essential contradictions." Could this be self sabotage?
• Eva Hesse and Smithson 'fought to regain possibilities for self-expression in sculpture'.
• "He began as a minimalist, making gallery pieces out of folded steel." - echo's my own work. 
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• p.37 Artworks made to last... spiral jetty made to change ... eroded..