Morganmobile: It's About Time

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Channa Horwitz’s Sonakinatography drawings use notation and color to signify sound (sona) and motion (kina). The Los Angeles-based conceptual artist once observed, “As a painter I could compose in two dimensions, as a sculptress I could compose in three dimensions, but I could not understand how musicians and dancers could compose in the fourth dimension: Time.” This two-part score, rendered in colors (left) and numbers (right), was submitted as a proposal to the Laguna Beach Art Museum for an installation that would have been a quarter-mile long in space, eight days long in time.

Channa Horwitz (1932–2013), Sonakinatography I Fade Out Time Structure Composition III, 1972. Pen and ink and felt-tip pen on graph paper; two sheets, each 35 x 13 inches (89 x 33 cm). Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2019.100a-b.