William Anastasi

William Anastasi produced a series of 'Subway Drawings', the drawings consisted of Anastasi sitting upright of the subway, pencil in each hand and a drawing board on his lap. With his shoulders away from the back rest and his elbows at 90 degree angles he aloud himself to take in the rhythm of the train journey including every turn, start, stop, acceleration and deceleration. As a result of this his drawings appear like random scribbles on paper, but when you know the process of the drawing you then see the recording of the environment that it was done in, in this case the journey of the train. This process of recording the environment through art is a different way of drawing ans in turn creates different drawings with different meanings and purposes.

I think that although the drawings don't appear to mean anything, they have purpose and this makes people have to think harder or spend more time with the drawing. Also similar the drawings may be ultimately everyone of them is unique and down to chance because of the environments.  I like how the drawings are down to chance and don't have structure to them because it is determined by the uncontrollable external environment. I think that using this method of movement to draw creates possibly better and more meaningful drawings.