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where all the sticks must be touching, or all sticks were to lean against a wall at the same exact angle. These nomadic works could then be easily stacked and stored. This series was influenced by his travels in southern Spain while on a fellowship in 1965, which he describes as the beginning of his itinerant art of "rearrangement, portability and change" that are "open ended rather than fixed." He goes on to state:
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that he deployed in spaces to explore changes in location and form by arranging and rearranging the sticks and photographing and exhibiting the various permutations. Some of the sets had different criteria for arrangement, such as in doorways or in glades. He also created "rules" such as arrangements
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Later in his life, Janz focused on producing graffiti-type works in lower
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