Ann Hamilton has a background in textiles and weaving. She describes the drawn linde and the thread, weaving, the computational structure of video, and non-narrative works. Writing about her video work from the 1970s-I becoame interested in the handloom as the first computer on earth, as the original grid and as a key to visual structuring....To realize that the structure of woven cloth provided a firm basis for the ordering of video information and time in the creation of precedent at a time when the limitlessness and newness of this medium were being extolled. In an age of such tremendous multiplicity of viewpoints, traditions, and beliefs as our own, it was a physical way for me as an artist, in an effort to heal my own inner striving for peace, to stretch my arms across millemmia to join the ancient and the new in one long embrace."

I don't know that I can articulate that realtionship between the thread and the written line and the drawn line, but for me...it's about the origin of things, about a really fundamental act of making."

time-consuming collaborative work-labor intensive acts of art-making, honored Midwestern work ethic-that labor is its own redemption

making of art is a social act, and that "how one chooses to be social is an ethical act"


Richard Serra-"I think that what artists do is they invent strategies that allow themselves to see in a way that they haven't seen before-to extend their vision."
Process art which emphasized the process of creation.

Laurie Anderson- future-inspired sense of time and spaces as infinite and elastic, and of the world as on eminor portion of a never-ending universe.
space-region of the mind

Place is latitudinal and lognitudinal within the map of a person's life. It is temporal and spatial, personal and political. A layered location replete with human histories and memories, place has width as well as depth. It is about connections, what surrounds it, what formed it, what happened there, what will happen there.- Lucy Lippard, The lecture of the local(1997)