William Anastasi: ''The genesis of the subway drawing was the walking drawing. These were done holding a pad and walking, watching where I was going rather than watching the pad. I started doing this in Philadelphia in the early 1960s. To my memory, the pocket drawings weren’t started until I was going to films at MoMA, so I was here in New York by then. And the pocket drawings at films led to pocket drawings in the subway. Those reminded me of some different subway drawings I had done before coming here''.
William Anastasi is one of the founders of conceptual and minimal art. His work on subway drawings is fascinating because the movement element comes from his drawing technique, his subway drawings are produced while he is travelling on the train itself which instantly gives his work an energetic feel. He uses 2 pens in either hand on paper to create his work which I think works really well because the ink flows perfectly, the movement of the paper helps the pens move in sync and almost copy each other.
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