Although in each of these
pieces the shafts of yarn are all of
identical height (stretching from floor to ceiling) and evenly spaced in relation to each
other, they appeared to differ wildly thanks to the vagaries of perspective, steadfastly refusing to cohere into a stable configuration, let alone the outline of an implied plane or object.
Bochner's initial idea was to ask his artist friends to loan him their working drawings for the exhibit, but there was no money to frame each
piece, so Bochner compiled notebook pages of print material and working drawings by Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Jo Baer, John Cage, Tom Clancy, Dan Flavin, Milton Glaser, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Alfred Jensen, Michael Kirby, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Moskovitz, Robert Smithson, and
others into a xeroxed volume which was then presented in four
identical copies, each on their own pedestal.
I have a loooong mantel, half of which stretches over a painted - white fireplace hearth that looks almost
identical to yours, the
other / left half of which stretches (in the same long
piece) into 3 built - in bookcases.