Inside Landscapes

 For my Sol Lewitt piece I wrote a set of instructions that guides the reader through a list of steps, written like an abstract guided meditation meditation, in order to complete a simple drawing. The purpose of this piece is to encourage the reader to start the instructions by envisioning a landscape in their mind, initiating their experience at a peaceful place. The instructions then take the reader through a set of very specific steps that are completely new and unfamiliar to the reader, detaching them from any prior expectations or incentives. This allows for every reader to genuinely create a drawing as naturally as possible, without planning, or engaged thought process. The reader the finishes the instructions as you would finish a meditation, with a final step, asking them to step back, and reflect. Every reader ends up with a completely original landscape extracted from within, through which they can better understand themselves. every reader undergoes a process of imagining a mountainscape, and almost accidentally creating one, actively and directly making a thought and a set of impersonal decisions into a very personal reality.