ANDY WEBSTER
ONE GALLON OF FAL RIVER MUD REDISTRIBUTED OVER NINETY MINUTES AND SIX EXTRA TIME
ONE GALLON OF FAL RIVER MUD REDISTRIBUTED OVER NINETY MINUTES AND SIX EXTRA TIME
The work began as a simple thought: what would happen if Richard Long's River Mud drawings were made, not with the artist's hand, but through a game of wally? Using one gallon of dock silt from the River Fal and a football, the artist repeatedly kicked the mud-covered ball against a gallery wall over 96 minutes - the duration of a football match plus six minutes of added time.
The work was first shown at Soil Culture, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK (2014)