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Ashes Withyman, Recollection of a path – it is difficult to estimate, by recollection only, the true distances between different points in a road that has been once traveled over. There are many circumstances which may mislead, such as the accidental tedium of one part, or the pleasure of another; but besides these, there is always the fact, that, in a long day’s journey, a person’s faculties of observation are more fresh and active on starting than later in the day, when, from the effect of weariness, even peculiar objects will fail to arrest his attention (from Uncertain Pilgrimage), 2006–2009, Richard Long’s shoes, leather, glue, thread, found map, paint, german bread basket, carpet, wood, string, adapted spoons, men’s pants, jacket sleeve, jacket, men’s trousers, bamboo, 3000 year old irish bogwood, scrap wood, pencil, cigarette and match, saw blade, knife blade, fishing line, thread and needle, 5 euros and 1 greenback (currently), sail, needle, mirror, portion of handkerchief, metal ferul, tin badge, case made from suit sleeve, receipt, wallpaper from abandoned houses, 73 x 101 x 63 in. (184 x 257 x 160 cm)

Ashes Withyman, Recollection of a path – it is difficult to estimate, by recollection only, the true distances between different points in a road that has been once traveled over. There are many circumstances which may mislead, such as the accidental tedium of one part, or the pleasure of another; but besides these, there is always the fact, that, in a long day’s journey, a person’s faculties of observation are more fresh and active on starting than later in the day, when, from the effect of weariness, even peculiar objects will fail to arrest his attention (from Uncertain Pilgrimage), 2006–2009, Richard Long’s shoes, leather, glue, thread, found map, paint, german bread basket, carpet, wood, string, adapted spoons, men’s pants, jacket sleeve, jacket, men’s trousers, bamboo, 3000 year old irish bogwood, scrap wood, pencil, cigarette and match, saw blade, knife blade, fishing line, thread and needle, 5 euros and 1 greenback (currently), sail, needle, mirror, portion of handkerchief, metal ferul, tin badge, case made from suit sleeve, receipt, wallpaper from abandoned houses, 73 x 101 x 63 in. (184 x 257 x 160 cm)