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This tape "Road" was executed under the sponsorship of the Akron Art Institute in Dec 1972 as partof the Six Artists Exhibition that took place there at that time. 

I videotaped the two middle dividing lines of one of the side roads of Akron, Ohio. Holding the camera, I walked and taped continuously for twenty minutes. The sound is the original sound of the road. 

A series of notes:

- [[strikethrough]] It is [[/strikethrough]] A visual presentation of the two center lines of the road from a perpendicular position. 

- The road that we walk on without seeing the perspective of the parallel lines, the dimension of close scrutiny of the center. 

- The perception does not start or end but filters into our relationship with the real world outside the screen, the objects around the screen relate in a kinetic way to the parallel lines. 

- Chance and prints of time reflect impermanence in the rigid, undisturbed lines.
 
- The scale on television screen is very close to the actual dimension of real line. 

- A flat line on the ground and a vertical one on the screen, a change of 90°.

- Changing the perception without changing the reality.

- The depth of vision is surrounded by the implied vastness of the open field. 

- The sense of grasping and freezing the continuous conveyor of the line; the time escaping the screen. 

- Looking at the screen is seeing the road. 


Technical information of Jamie Davidovich's "Road"
Title: "Road"
length in minutes: 20 minutes
month, year: December, 1972
collaboration with Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
equipment used:1/2 inch tape, Shibaden portable unit, black and white with sound 

Jamie Davidovich "Road" 1972

Transcription Notes:
left gap for line fraction is written as 1/2