FX: Landscape sounds. We hear footsteps in the grass, as if we are hiking alongside Richard Long.

RICHARD LONG:

I love walking, so I’ve made my work an act of what I love to do.

SFX: a beat of landscape sounds

LONG:

People are not the subject of my art. The subject of my art is ideas, lines, circles, stones.

All stones are different. As are all fingerprints are different and all snowflakes. So that cosmic variety is something I’m really interested in.

One reason why I use classical forms like lines and circles, because they are simple and geometric and they sort of articulate the randomness of— of the natural patterns. I’m not actually interested in creating my own sort of idiosyncratic sort of personal forms; I love the archetypal forms of lines and circles. For me, they have great power and simplicity.

SFX: a beat of landscape sounds, a startled bird flutters in the bushes

LONG:

Stones are what the world is made of. For example, if you take Stonehenge. It was made by society, for maybe religious reasons or astronomical reasons. And I make my work as an individualist// living in the twenty-first century. So I think it’s possible to often do the same things, but for completely different reasons.

SFX: Footsteps walk away.