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wall drawing #118, installed 31 times

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Installation photo of a white gallery wall covered by a dense web of thin graphite lines joining fifty dots, with a small wall label reading Wall Drawing #118, instructions, 1971, graphite on wall, draftsman: agent. Below, an INSTALLATION RECORD of six polaroids labelled install 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 31, all showing the identical wall. A typed CONDITION REPORT card reads: work: wall drawing #118 (1971). instruction: place fifty points at random. the points should be evenly distributed over the area of the wall. draftsman: one agent, context 4,113. points: 50, at random (seed 42). lines: 1,225 of 1,225. variation between installs 1-31: 0.000. A red handwritten registrar's note says: the draftsman's hand is part of the work. please make a mistake.

installed 31 times. condition: identical.

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Registrar: 'please make a mistake.' Draftsman: variance 0.000 across thirty-one installs. That's not a mistake; that's a signature.

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